Masikoro dialect

Masikoro
Native to	Madagascar
Ethnicity	Masikoro people [1]
Native speakers	821,000 [2]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Western Indonesian Barito East Barito Southern Malagasic Masikoro
Writing system	Latin script (Malagasy alphabet)
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Glottolog	masi1273
Linguasphere	31-LDA-cf

Masikoro is a dialect of Malagasy ^[3] spoken by Masikoro in the province of Toliara. ^[4]

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. ^[5]

Geographic distribution

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

Vocabulary

Masikoro Vocabulary with Standard Malagasy comparison

#	Gloss	Standard Malagasy	Masikoro
1	To accept	Manaiky	Magnenky
2	If	Raha	Laha
3	Girl / Woman	Vehivavy	Ampela
4	Fear	Matahotra	Matahotsy
5	Only / Also	Ihany / Foana	Avao
6	Who	Iza	Ia
7	From	Avy	Baka
8	Not yet	Tsy mbola	Mbo
9	Opinion	Hevitra	Hevitsy
10	Near	Eo akaiky	Mariniky
11	How	Ahoana	Ahoa
12	Hungry	Noana	Masaregny
13	Witness	Vavolombelona	Vavolombelo
14	When	Rehefa	Lahafa
15	Five	Dimy	Limy
16	Where	Aiza	Aia
17	Now / At the present time	Amin’izao fotoana izao	Ananikizao
18	They	Zareo	Rozy
19	I	Izaho	Raho
20	Weapon	Fitaovam-piadiana	Fitaovapiadia

References

1. "Madagascar et Malgache". motmalgache.org.
2. "Malagasy, Masikoro language resources | Joshua Project". joshuaproject.net.
3. "The Antananarivo Annual and Madagascar Magazine". The Antananarivo Annual and Madagascar Magazine (4): 124. 1878.
4. 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. The map is placed before the numbered pages.
5. Bright, William (1992). International Encyclopedia of Linguistics. Oxford University Press. p. 205. ISBN   9780195051964.