Tsimihety dialect

{{short description|Austronesian language of Madagascar}}

{{Infobox language

| name = Tsimihety

| nativename =

| states = {{ubl|Madagascar}}

| ethnicity = Tsimihety people

| nation =

| speakers = 2,475,000 https://joshuaproject.net/people_groups/15593/MA

| date =

| ref =

| familycolor = Austronesian

| fam2 = Malayo-Polynesian

| fam3 = Western Indonesian

| fam4 = Barito

| fam5 = East Barito

| fam6 = Northern Malagasic

| iso3 = xmw

| glotto = tsim1257

| glottorefname = Malagasic

| lingua = 31-LDA-ec

| script = {{ubl

| Latin script (Malagasy alphabet)

}}

| module = {{Listen

| pos = right

| embed = yes

| filename = Tsimihety language audio sample.ogg

| title = Tsimihety language sample

| type = speech

| description = Tsimihety woman reading gospel in the Tsimihety dialect.

}}

}}

Tsimihety is a northern dialect of Malagasy spoken by Tsimihety people in the region of Sofia.https://islands-mission.org/translations/