Southern Sakalava dialect

{{Short description|Austronesian language of Madagascar}}

{{Short description|Austronesian language of Madagascar}}

{{Infobox language

{{Infobox language

| name = Southern Sakalava

| name = Southern Sakalava

| nativename =

| nativename =

| states = {{ubl|[[Madagascar]]}}

| states = {{ubl|[[Madagascar]]}}

| ethnicity = Sakalava

| ethnicity = Sakalava

| nation =

| nation =

| speakers =

| speakers =

| date =

| date =

| ref =

| ref =

| familycolor = Austronesian

| familycolor = Austronesian

| fam2 = [[Malayo-Polynesian languages|Malayo-Polynesian]]

| fam2 = [[Malayo-Polynesian languages|Malayo-Polynesian]]

| fam3 = [[Western Indonesian languages|Western Indonesian]]

| fam3 = [[Western Indonesian languages|Western Indonesian]]

| fam4 = [[Barito languages|Barito]]

| fam4 = [[Barito languages|Barito]]

| fam5 = [[East Barito languages|East Barito]]

| fam5 = [[East Barito languages|East Barito]]

| fam6 = Southern Malagasic

| fam6 = Southern Malagasic

| glotto = saka1291

| glotto = saka1291

| glottorefname = Malagasic

| glottorefname = Malagasic

| lingua = 31-LDA-da

| lingua = 31-LDA-da

| script = {{ubl

| script = {{ubl

| [[Latin script]] (Malagasy alphabet)

| [[Latin script]] (Malagasy alphabet)

}}

}}

| module = {{Listen

| notice = IPA

| pos = right

| module = {{Listen

| embed = yes

| pos = right

| filename = Southern Sakalava language audio sample.ogg

| embed = yes

| filename = Southern Sakalava language audio sample.ogg

| title = Southern Sakalava language sample (Maintirano)

| title = Southern Sakalava language sample (Maintirano)

| type = speech

| type = speech

| description = An elderly woman relating, in Southern Sakalava dialect, her time as a hostage by bandits in Maintirano.

| description = An elderly woman recounts, in Southern Sakalava dialect, her experience of being held hostage by bandits in Maintirano.

}}

}}<br />

{{Listen

| pos = right

| embed = yes

| filename = Southern Sakalava sample 2.ogg

| title = Southern Sakalava language sample (Morondava)

| type = speech

| description = A woman recounts, in Southern Sakalava dialect, the desperate search for her missing son, believed to have drowned in a river.

}}

}}

}}

'''Southern Sakalava''' is a dialect of [[Malagasy language|Malagasy]] spoken by the Sakalava from the region of Melaky to Atsimo Andrefana.

'''Southern Sakalava''' is a dialect of [[Malagasy language|Malagasy]] spoken by the Sakalava from the region of Melaky to Atsimo Andrefana.