• Tsimihety is a northern dialect of Malagasy spoken by Tsimihety people in the region of Sofia. Tsimihety dialect belongs to the Austronesian language family...
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  • Northern Sakalava, Bushi, Northern Betsimisaraka, and Tsimihety dialects. Antakarana is the popular dialect in the regions of Diana and to a lesser extent Sava...
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  • language part of the Plateaux branch of Malagasy language. Northern dialects like Tsimihety and Northern Betsimisaraka influence a lot the Sihanaka language...
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  • southern tip of the island Tsimihety Malagasy (1,615,000 speakers) – spoken by the Tsimihety people. Additionally, the Bushi dialect (41,700 speakers) is spoken...
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    The Tsimihety are a Malagasy ethnic group who are found in the north-central region of Madagascar. Their name means "those who never cut their hair",...
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  • Malagasy subgroup along with Tsimihety, Bushi, Northern Betsimisaraka and Antakarana. Northern Sakalava is the main dialect spoken in the province of Mahajanga...
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  • language family. It is part of Northern Malagasic subgroup along with Tsimihety, Northern Sakalava, Northern Betsimisaraka and Antakarana. Kiantalaotsy...
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    The largest coastal groups are the Betsimisaraka (1,500,000) and the Tsimihety and Sakalava (700,000 each). Malagasy society has long been polarized...
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  • to be associated with shared ancestry, history, homeland, language or dialect and cultural heritage; where the term "culture" specifically includes aspects...
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    patriarchal social structure. The groups are distinguished by linguistic sub-dialects and various fady (taboos), as well as certain funeral practices and other...
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  • macrolanguage is a group of mutually intelligible speech varieties, or dialect continuum, that have no traditional name in common, and which may be considered...
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    president of the Republic, Philibert Tsiranana, was a coastal Malagasy of Tsimihety ethnicity, and he was able to consolidate his power with a winner-takes-all...
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    coastal ethnic subgroups are the Betsimisaraka (14.9 percent) and the Tsimihety and Sakalava (6 percent each). Peoples along the east and southeastern...
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  • ISBN 978-0-226-06456-7. Dandouau, A. (1922). Contes Populaires Des Sakalava Et Des Tsimihety. Ferrand, Gabriel. Contes populaires malgaches. Paris: Ernest Leroux,...
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