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Malagasy

A macrolanguage of Madagascar

ISO 639-3mlg

Population total all countries: 14,736,900.
Member languages  Malagasy, Antankarana [xmv] (Madagascar)
Malagasy, Bara [bhr] (Madagascar)
Malagasy, Masikoro [msh] (Madagascar)
Malagasy, Northern Betsimisaraka [bmm] (Madagascar)
Malagasy, Plateau [plt] (Madagascar)
Malagasy, Sakalava [skg] (Madagascar)
Malagasy, Southern Betsimisaraka [bjq] (Madagascar)
Malagasy, Tandroy-Mahafaly [tdx] (Madagascar)
Malagasy, Tanosy [txy] (Madagascar)
Malagasy, Tsimihety [xmw] (Madagascar)

Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:

Academic Publications

BLENCH, Roger M., author. 2006. "The Austronesians in Madagascar and on the East African coast: surveying the linguistic evidence for domestic and translocated animals."  Available online

BLENCH, Roger, author. 2008. "The Austronesians in Madagascar and their interaction with the Bantu of the East African coast: Surveying the linguistic evidence for domestic and translocated animals.."

BOUWER, Leoni, author. 2010. "A bibliographic journey through Madagascar."  Available online

DROSSARD, Werner; EGERT, Markus, authors. 2006. "The semantics of Malagasy actor voice prefixes."  Available online

KROEGER, Paul R., author. 2009. "Malagasy clefts from a Western Malayo-Polynesian perspective: commentary on the paper by Hans-Martin Gärtner."

PEARSON, Matt, author. 2008. "'Tense' marked obliques in Malagasy."