Antaifasy dialect

Antaifasy
Antaifasy
Zakan'Atefasy
Native to	Madagascar;
Ethnicity	Antaifasy
Native speakers	254,000
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Western Indonesian Barito East Barito Central-Eastern Malagasic Plateaux malagasy Antaifasy; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Writing system	Latin script (Malagasy alphabet);
Language codes
ISO 639-1	Mg
ISO 639-3	Plt
Linguasphere	31-LDA-be
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Antaifasy is a dialect of Malagasy spoken by Antaifasy people and the main dialect around the Farafangana district. ^[2]

Classification

Antefasy is an Austronesian language part of the Plateaux malagasy group.

Antaifasy is very simillar and it can be mistaken to Antaimoro dialect. The difference between the two dialects are quiet small.

v t e Languages of Madagascar
Official languages	French Malagasy
Malagasy dialects	Sahafatra Antefasy Betsileo Vakinankaratra Tanosy Bezanozano Antambahoaka Vezo Sihanaka Tanala Antakarana Antesaka Tsimihety Northern Sakalava Antaimoro Bara Southern Betsimisaraka Northern Betsimisaraka
Foreign languages	English
Sign languages	Malagasy Sign Language