Northern Sakalava dialect

{{short description|Austronesian language of Madagascar}}

{{Infobox language

| name = Northern Sakalava

| nativename =

| states = {{ubl|Madagascar}}

| ethnicity = Boina Sakalava

| nation =

| speakers =

| date =

| ref =

| familycolor = Austronesian

| fam2 = Malayo-Polynesian

| fam3 = Western Indonesian

| fam4 = Barito

| fam5 = East Barito

| fam6 = Northern Malagasic

| iso3 = skg

| glotto = maju1234

| glottorefname = Malagasic

| lingua = 31-LDA-dc

| script = {{ubl

| Latin script (Malagasy alphabet)

}}

| module = {{Listen

| pos = right

| embed = yes

| filename = North Sakalava Sample 2.ogg

| title = Northern Sakalava language sample

| type = speech

| description = The wife of a castaway recalling her husband's survival at sea and rescue, then thanking the authorities in Majunga for their help to her husband and family.

}}

}}

Northern Sakalava is a northern dialect of Malagasy spoken by Sakalava people especially in the region of Boeny and Sofia. https://islands-mission.org/translations/