Tanosy dialect
| Tanosy | |
|---|---|
| Native to | |
| Ethnicity | Tanosy people |
Native speakers | 913,000 [1] |
Austronesian
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | txy |
| Glottolog | tano1246 |
| Linguasphere | 31-LDA-bg |
Tanosy is a dialect of Malagasy spoken by Tanosy people in South-eastern Madagascar.[2]
Classification
[edit]Tanosy dialect belongs to the Austronesian language family and part of Southern malagasy subgroup.
Geographic distribution
[edit]Tanosy is widely spoken in Anosy region and the popular dialect spoken in the city of Fort-dauphin. [3]
Vocabulary
[edit]| 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 |