Betsileo dialect

{{Short description|Austronesian language spoken in the southern highlands of Madagascar}}

{{Infobox language

| name = Betsileo

| nativename =

| states = {{ubl|Madagascar}}

| ethnicity = Betsileo

| nation =

| speakers =

| date =

| ref =

| familycolor = Austronesian

| fam2 = Malayo-Polynesian

| fam3 = Western Indonesian

| fam4 = Barito

| fam5 = East Barito

| fam6 = Central-Eastern Malagasic

| fam7 = Plateaux Malagasy

| iso1 = mg

| iso3 = plt

| glotto = bets1235

| glottorefname = Malagasic

| lingua = 31-LDA-aj

| script = {{ubl

| Latin script (Malagasy alphabet)

}}

| module = {{Listen

| pos = right

| embed = yes

| filename = Betsileo language sample.ogg

| title = Betsileo dialect sample 1

| type = speech

| description = A woman speaking in the Betsileo dialect about helping malnourished children.

}}

{{Listen

| pos = right

| embed = yes

| filename = Betsileo language sample 2.ogg

| title = Betsileo dialect sample 2

| type = speech

| description = Betsileo peasants praising support received from ADRA projects in the Betsileo dialect.

}}

}}

Betsileo is a dialect of Malagasy spoken in the homeland of Betsileo people.{{cite web |url=https://motmalgache.org/bins/ethnicLists |title=ethnicLists – Dictionnaire et Encyclopédie malgaches |website=motmalgache.org |access-date=29 April 2025}}