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Malagasy, Antankarana

A language of Madagascar

ISO 639-3: xmv

Population  330,000 (2006).
Region  North tip, Antsiranana Province.
Language map  Comoros, Madagascar and Mayotte, reference number 1
Alternate names   Tankarana
Dialects  Lexical similarity: 71% with the Merina dialect of Plateau Malagasy [plt].
Classification  Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Greater Barito, East, Malagasy
A member of macrolanguage Malagasy [mlg] (Madagascar).
Comments  VOS. Agriculturalists.

Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:

Academic Publications

BOUWER, Leoni, author. 2003. THE VIABILITY OF OFFICIAL MALAGASY IN THE LANGUAGE ECOLOGY OF SOUTHERN MADAGASCAR WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO THE BARA SPEECH COMMUNITY.