Sihanaka dialect

{{Short description|Austronesian language of Madagascar}}

{{Infobox language

| name = Sihanaka

| nativename =

| states = {{ubl|Madagascar}}

| ethnicity = Sihanaka

| nation =

| speakers = 695,000 https://www.peoplegroups.org/explore/GroupDetails.aspx?peid=15313

| 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 = siha1244

| glottorefname = Malagasic

| lingua = 31-LDA-ab

| script = {{ubl

| Latin script (Malagasy alphabet)

}}

| notice = IPA

| module = {{Listen

| pos = right

| embed = yes

| filename = Sihanaka language audio sample 1.ogg

| title = Sihanaka language sample 1

| type = speech

| description = A woman reading gospel in the Sihanaka dialect.

}}

{{Listen

| pos = right

| embed = yes

| filename = Sihanaka language audio sample 2.ogg

| title = Sihanaka language sample 2

| type = speech

| description = Another recording of a woman reading gospel in the Sihanaka dialect.

}}

{{Listen

| pos = right

| embed = yes

| filename = Sihanaka language audio sample 3.ogg

| title = Sihanaka language sample 3

| type = speech

| description = A third gospel reading by a woman in the Sihanaka dialect.

}}

}}

Sihanaka is a dialect of Malagasy spoken by Sihanaka people.https://www.wycliffe.org/blog/posts/sihanaka-of-madagascar