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/
Classification
Tsimihety dialect belongs to the Austronesian language family. It is part of Northern Malagasy subgroup along with Northern Sakalava, Bushi, Northern Betsimisaraka and Antakarana.https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/nort3207
Geographic distribution
Tsimihety is the popular dialect in the region of Sofia and of the Tsimihety diaspora in Mahajanga and Antananarivo.
Vocabulary
class="wikitable sortable"
! English !! Malagasy standard !! Tsimihety | ||
Father | Ray | Ada |
People | Olona | Ologno |
Now | Izao | Izy ke |
When | Rehefa | Izy koa |
Now | Izao | Izy ke |
Only | Ihany | Fô/Fôgna |
Even | Na | Ndre |
Really | Tokoa | Tatô |
Yet | Mbola | Apôla |
In | Any | Akagny |
On | Eo/Teo | Akeo/Takeo |
Here | Ato | Akato |
Near | Akaik | Mariny |
Then | Avy eo | Avy akeo |
So | Ka | Ke |
Suffering | Fijaliana | Fijaliagna |
Alive | Velona | Velogno |
Spring(Water) | Loharano | Lôharano |
Clean | Madio | Madi |
To show | Aseho | Abôla |
To hide | Afenina | Avôny |
To listen | Mihaino | Mitandregny |
References
{{Reflist}}
{{Bornean languages}}
{{Western Malayo-Polynesian languages}}
{{Languages of Madagascar}}