Tanosy dialect
{{short description|Austronesian language of Madagascar}}
{{Infobox language
| name = Tanosy
| nativename =
| states = {{ubl|Madagascar}}
| ethnicity = Tanosy people
| nation =
| speakers = 913,000 https://joshuaproject.net/people_groups/10346/MA
| date =
| ref =
| familycolor = Austronesian
| fam2 = Malayo-Polynesian
| fam3 = Western Indonesian
| fam4 = Barito
| fam5 = East Barito
| fam6 = Southern malagasy
| iso3 = txy
| glotto = tano1246
| glottorefname = Malagasic
| lingua = 31-LDA-bg
| script = {{ubl
| Latin script (Malagasy alphabet)
}}
}}
Tanosy is a dialect of Malagasy spoken by Tanosy people in South-eastern Madagascar.https://motmalgache.org/bins/ethnicLists
Classification
Tanosy dialect belongs to the Austronesian language family and part of Southern malagasy subgroup.
Geographic distribution
Tanosy is widely spoken in Anosy region and the popular dialect spoken in the city of Fort-dauphin. https://islands-mission.org/translations/
Vocabulary
class="wikitable sortable"
! English gloss !! Malagasy standard gloss!! Tanosy gloss | ||
One | Iray/Isa | Raiky/Isa |
You | Anareo | Andrareo |
We/Us | Isika | Atsika |
The | Ny | Gny |
That/Who/Which | No/Izay | Gny |
From | Avy any | Lahatè |
Suffering | Fijaliana | Fijalia |
Wife/Husband | Vady | Valy |
Angel | Anjely | Ajely |
Sheep | Ondry | Agnondry |
Cow | Omby | Agnomby |
Knife | Antsy | Mesa |
Week | Erinandro | Erignandro |
Year | Taona | Tao |
Tax | Hetra | Vilin-doha |
To seek | Mitady | Mitaly |
References
{{Reflist}}
{{Western Malayo-Polynesian languages}}
{{Languages of Madagascar}}