Betsileo dialect

Betsileo
Native to	Madagascar
Ethnicity	Betsileo
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Western Indonesian Barito East Barito Central-Eastern Malagasic Plateaux Malagasy Betsileo
Writing system	Latin script (Malagasy alphabet)
Language codes
ISO 639-1	Mg
ISO 639-3	Plt
Glottolog	bets1235
Linguasphere	31-LDA-aj
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Betsileo is a dialect of Malagasy spoken in the homeland of Betsileo people. ^[1]

Classification

Betsileo is an Austronesian language part of the Plateaux branch of Malagasy language. ^[2]

Geographic distribution

Betsileo dialect is widely spoken in the regions of Amoron'i Mania and Matsiatra Ambony. ^[3]

Vocabulary

English	Malagasy standard	Betsileo
One	Iray	Iraika
One	Iray halina	Iray haligna
I/Me	Izaho/Aho	Aho/A
He/She/Him/Her	Izy	Izy
We	Izahay/Isika	Agnay/Atsika
You	Anao/Anareo	Agnao/Agnareo
All	Avy	Aby
Not	Tsy	Tsa
Really/Very	Tena	Tegna
That	no	ro
Too much	Be loatra	Be loatsa
Family	Fianakaviana	Fianakavena
Question	Fanontaniana	Fanontanena
To say	Miteny	Mitarogna
Fear	Tahotra	Tahotsa

References

1. "ethnicLists – Dictionnaire et Encyclopédie malgaches". motmalgache.org. Retrieved 29 April 2025.
2. http://olac.ldc.upenn.edu/language/plt
3. "Translations - Islands Mission".