Zafisoro dialect
| Zafisoro | |
|---|---|
| Native to | |
| Ethnicity | Zafisoro people |
Native speakers | 146,000 (2025)[1] |
Austronesian
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-1 | Mg |
| ISO 639-3 | Plt |
| Glottolog | zafi1234 |
| Linguasphere | 31-LDA-bc |
Zafisoro is a coastal dialect of the Malagasy language spoken by the Zafisoro people in the northwestern part of the Farafangana District in southeastern Madagascar.[2]
Classification
[edit]Zafisoro belongs to the Austronesian languages family, under the Malayo-Polynesian languages branch. It is part of the Western Indonesian languages, specifically the Barito languages group and its Eastern Barito subgroup.
Within Malagasy, Zafisoro falls under the Central-Eastern Malagasic cluster, more precisely in the Plateau Malagasy division and the Antemoro–Antefasy subgroup.
Geographic distribution
[edit]The dialect is spoken in and around the localities of Evato, Mahafasa Afovoany, Amporoforo, and Ambalatany. These areas represent the core territory of the Zafisoro within the Farafangana District.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ "Zafisoro in Madagascar". Joshua Project. Retrieved 1 July 2025.
- ^ Molet, Louis (1957). Petit guide de toponymie malgache (PDF) (in French). Tananarive: Scientific Research Institute of Madagascar, Department of Human Sciences. pp. map (unnumbered) + p. 7.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: ref duplicates default (link) The map is placed before the numbered pages. - ^ "Prime Magazine, March 2020 (PDF)" (PDF). Prime Media International. Retrieved 1 July 2025.
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