Masikoro dialect

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Masikoro
Southern Malagasic group.jpg
Native to
Ethnicity Masikoro people [1]
Native speakers
821,000 [2]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 –
Glottolog masi1273
Linguasphere 31-LDA-cf
Masikoro language sample
Masikoro people explaining their opposition to the Base Toliara mining project.

Masikoro is a dialect of Malagasy spoken by Masikoro in the province of Toliara. [3]

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Classification

Masikoro dialect belongs to the Austronesian language family and part of the subgroup of malagasy dialect known as Southern malagasic. It's very close to Vezo and Southern Sakalava. [4]

Geographic distribution

Masikoro is a very popular dialect in the inland of Atsimo Andrefana while Vezo dialect dominated its coast.

References

  1. ↑ "Madagascar et Malgache". motmalgache.org.
  2. ↑ "Malagasy, Masikoro language resources | Joshua Project". joshuaproject.net.
  3. ↑ Molet, Louis (1957). Petit guide de toponymie malgache (PDF) (in French). Tananarive: Scientific Research Institute of Madagascar, Department of Human Sciences. pp. map (unnumbered) + p. 7.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: ref duplicates default (link) The map is placed before the numbered pages.
  4. ↑ Bright, William (1992). International Encyclopedia of Linguistics. Oxford University Press. p. 205. ISBN   9780195051964.


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