In the upcoming fall 2023 and spring 2024 semesters, the two introductory courses, MALAGASY 101/701 and MALAGASY 102/702, will be offered again. An intermediate course, MALAGASY 203/703, will be ...

The Malagasy language is spoken by 17 million people, and is the national language of Madagascar. It is only the 55th most spoken language in the world, but it is still one of the 69 macro languages.

The Malagasy language is most closely related to the Ma’anyan language spoken on the island of Borneo, located more than 4,500 miles away.

Malagasy language. Malagasy only recently become a written language. Until Welsh missionaries transcribed the language in the 1820s, the Malagasy had to rely on oral history to mark past events.

The Malagasy people of Madagascar carry the genes from ancestors in nearby East Africa and distant Borneo, suggesting a big migration from Asia to Africa 2,000 years ago, British researchers ...

Malagasy is also spoken on other Indian Ocean islands like Réunion, Mayotte, and Mauritius and some groups who speak the language live more than 4,000 miles away in the Sunda Islands of southeast ...