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• Malagasy-Word: Englsish-Malagasy dictionary, French & vocabulary by topics


• 17 minute languages: phrases usuelles malgache-français (+ audio)

• Dominicweb: pronunciation of Malagasy words (audio)


• Diksionary englisy sy malagasy by Joseph Stewell (1875)

• Malagasy-English dictionary by James Richardson (1885)

• English and Malagasy vocabulary by Rabearana, Rabezandrina, Ralaitafikia (1863)

• Dictionary of the Malagasy language by Joseph John Freeman (1835)


• Dictionnaire malgache-français by Antoine Abinal & Victorin Malzac (1899)

• Dictionnaire français-malgache by Victorin Malzac (1926)

• Vocabulaire français-malgache by Aristide Marre (1895)

• Vocabulaire français-malgache rédigé par les missionnaires catholiques à l'usage de leurs élèves qui apprennent le français (1880)

• Dictionnaire français-malgache adapté aux dialectes de toutes les provinces, by Joseph Webber (1855)

• Dictionnaire de la langue de Madagascar d'après l'édition de 1658 & Histoire de la grande isle Madagascar de 1661, by Étienne de Flacourt, publié by Gabriel Ferrand (1905)

• Petit interprète du soldat français à Madagascar by Louis-Léon Dubois (1895)

• Spraeck ende woord-boeck in de Maleysche ende Madagaskarsche talen, met vele Arabische ende Turcsche woorden (Dictionary and grammar of the Malay and Malagasy languages), by Frederick de Houtman (1603)

• Un vocabulaire malgache-hollandais : manuscript from the beginning of the 17th century, in Arabic script, translated into French by Gabriel Ferrand, in Bijdragen tot de taal-, land- en volkenkunde (1908)


• Faunal names in Malagasy: their etymologies and implications for the prehistory of the East African coast, by Martin Walsh & Roger Blench, International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics (2009)

• On loanwords in Malagasy by Alexander Adelaar, in Loanwords in the world's languages (2010)

• Arabic in Madagascar by Kees Versteegh, in Bulletin of the school of Oriental and African studies (2001)

Malagasy language

• Dico-malgache: introduction to Malagasy

• pronunciation & grammar


• studies about the Malagasy language & relations with other Austronesian languages, by Alexander Adelaar

• Malagasy dialect history (2013)

• Who were the first Malagasy, and what did they speak? (2013)

• Malagasy phonological history and Bantu influence, in Oceanic linguistics (2012)


• Introduction to the language and literature of Madagascar by Julius Kessler (1870)

• Malagasy for beginners by James Richardson (1884)

• Concise grammar of the Malagasy language by G.W. Parker (1883)

• Concise introduction to the study of the Malagasy language as spoken in Imerina, by William Edward Cousins (1894)

• Grammar of the Malagasy language by David Griffiths (1854)

• Gramara lehibe sy analysisa: Malagasy grammar, by G. Cousins (1887) (in Malagasy)


• Précis théorique et pratique de langue malgache pour faciliter l'usage rapide du hova, clef des autres dialectes, by Gustave Julien (1904)

• Essai de grammaire malgache by Gabriel Ferrand (1903)

• Grammaire malgache by Aristide Marre (1894)

• Manuel des dialectes malgaches : hova, betsiléo, tankarana, betsimisaraka, taimorona, tanosy, sakalava, soahély, by Antony Jully (1901)

• Grammaire malgache by Pierre Caussèque (1886)

• Grammaire malgache hova by Laurent Ailloud (1872)


• books & papers about the Malagasy language: Google books | Internet archive | Academia | Wikipedia

Audio

• Archives de la parole: Malagasy accounts & songs (1927)

Texts & Literature

• How to read a folktale: the Ibonia epic from Madagascar, by Lee Haring (2013)

• Malagasy customs, native accounts about the circumcision, the tangena, the fandroana, marriage & burial ceremonies, collected William Edward Cousins (1896)

• Tantara ny andriana eto Madagascar (history of the kings of Madagascar): historical documents collected by François Callet (1908)


• Baiboly: bilingual Malagasy-French Bible (1865) & Malagasy hymns

• Ny Teny n'Andriamanitra, atao hoe, Testamenta ny Jesosy Kraisty: first translation of the New Testament into Malagasy (1830)

Andriamanitra refers to God, the Divinity.

• Ny Baiboly: The Bible translated into Malagasy, revised by David Griffiths (1865)

• Ny diksionary amin' ny Baiboly: biblical dictionary, by James Sibree (1899)

• Ny filazana ny zavatra nataony sy nambara ny i Jeso-Kristy (The life of Our Savour Jesus Christ) (1860)

First article of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Teraka afaka sy mitovy zo sy fahamendrehana ny olombelona rehetra.
Samy manan-tsaina sy fieritreretana ka tokony hifampitondra am-pirahalahiana.


→ First article in different languages

→ Universal Declaration of Human Rights: in Malagasy, English & other languages

Some Malagasy words
manao ahoana ! Hello! (or salàma !)
tonga soa ! welcome!
veloma ! good bye!
ekena ! ok!
tanà na town
ranomasina sea
nosy island
moka fohy mosquito
voay crocodile

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