Malagasy
Conjugate VerbsFacts
- Language: Malagasy
- Alternate names: Malagasy, Malgache, Official Malagasy, Standard Malagasy, Malagasy Plateau
- Language code: plt
- Language family: Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Basap-Greater Barito, Greater Barito linkage, Southeast Barito, Malagasic, North-Central Malagasic, Central-Eastern Malagasic
- Number of speakers: 7520000
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Introduction
Malagasy (Malagasy, Plateau) is a language of Madagascar. It is spoken in Central. Also in Comoros (Malagasy), Mayotte (Malagasy), Réunion (Malagasy), United States.
Loans from Bantu languages, Swahili, Arabic, English, French. VOS. Agriculturalists: coffee, cloves, vanilla, rice; perfume. Traditional religion, Christian, Muslim.
Dialects
Betsileo, Bezanozano, Merina, Sihanaka, Tanala, Vakinankaritra. The most similar language outside Madagascar is Ma’anyan in south Borneo (Kalimantan, Indonesia).
The Malagasy Verb
Verblist
- avy -- to come
- homana -- to eat
- milomano -- to swim
- mahalala -- to know, be knowledgeable
- mahandro -- to cook
- mahita -- to see
- mamaky -- to split
- mamboly -- to plant
- mamely -- to hit
- mametraka -- to sit
- mipetraka -- to sit
- mamia -- to squeeze
- mamoha -- to open, uncover
- mamono -- to kill
- manaikitra -- to bite
- manapaka -- to cut, hack
- mandeha -- to walk
- mandoa -- to vomit
- mandoaka -- to stab, pierce
- mandoro -- to burn
- mandreni -- to hear
- mandrora -- to spit
- mandry -- to lie down
- mangalatra -- to steal
- manidina -- to fly
- manisa -- to count
- manitrika -- to hide
- manjaitra -- to sew
- manoaka -- to yawn
- manofy -- to dream
- matory -- to sleep
- maty -- to die, be dead
- miaina -- to live, be alive
- miakatra -- to climb
- miasa -- to work
- mibontsina -- to swell
- mifehy -- to tie up, fasten
- mifidy -- to choose
- mifoka -- to breathe
- mihady -- to dig
- mihaotra -- to scratch
- mihaza -- to hunt
- mihazona -- to hold
- mitana -- to hold
- mihevitra -- to think
- mihota -- to chew
- misotro -- to drink
- miteny -- to say
- mitifitra -- to shoot
- mitomany -- to cry
- mitombo -- to grow
- mitoraka -- to throw
- mitoto -- to pound, beat
- mitroka -- to sniff, smell
- mitsangana -- to stand
- mitsentsitra -- to suck
- mitsoka -- to blow
- mivalana -- to flow
- mividy -- to buy
- tahotra -- to fear
- vily -- to turn