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	Malagasy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Malagasy, like the people who use it, is a living synthesis of Indonesian, African, and Arabic elements.
		The Malagasy alphabet is therefore quite similar to the English alphabet.
		Malagasy is the only Polynesian-African culture in the world.
	www.flw.com /languages/malagasy.htm (67 words)

	OHCHR: Malagasy () - Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Malagasy, also known as Malgache, is spoken on the island of Madagascar.
		It would be logical to assume that Malagasy belongs to one or another of the African language families but this is not the case.
		Standard Malagasy is based on the Merina dialect, the first to be written in Latin characters.
	www.unhchr.ch /udhr/lang/mex.htm (1518 words)

	Malagasy Lutheran Church (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Malagasy Lutheran Church was founded by Norwegian missionaries who first came in 1866 and began work in the central part of the island.
		The Malagasy Lutheran Church was established as an independent church in 1950, with 1800 congregations and 180,000 members.
		Several Malagasy doctors and theological professors have served and are serving as missionaries in Cameroon and Papua New Guinea.
	www.elca.org /countrypackets/madagascar/church-print.html (478 words)

	Animal Info - Malagasy Giant Rat
		The Malagasy giant rat is now confined to an area of 200 sq km (77 sq mi) of fragmented but relatively undisturbed forest remnants near the west coast of Madagascar, northeast of Morondava.
		The Malagasy giant rat is now confined to an area of 200 sq km (77 sq mi) of fragmented but relatively undisturbed forest remnants near the west coast of Madagascar, northeast of Morondava between the Tomitsy and Tsiribihina Rivers.
		The Malagasy giant rat is a herbivore and is strictly nocturnal.
	www.animalinfo.org /species/rodent/hypoanti.htm (1571 words)

	THE CULT OF ANCESTORS in Malagasy Culture
		The "FAMADIHANA" is an important Malagasy traditional feast which is related to the returning of the rests and bones of the RAZANA so that they can be repacked in new layers of LAMBAMENA.
		Let's not forget that it is a sort of insult for the MAlagasy people not to be buried in their RAZANA's tomb, and a real shame for someone whose burial in this tomb has been refused or forbidden by his ancestors or his parents.
		It could not be denied that the Malagasy have always appreciated good relationship in their societies especially among the family members.
	www.geocities.com /fontsy/dave.htm (517 words)

	Malagasy Translation - Translate Malagasy Language Translator
		Because of tropical storms which commonly affect the coast, some early settlers left the coast and went to live in the centre of the island in the mountains where the weather is cooler and less windy.
		Malagasy troops fought in France, Morocco, and Syria during World War I. After France fell to the Germans, Madagascar was administered first by the Vichy government and then in 1942 by the British, whose troops occupied the strategic island to preclude its seizure by the Japanese.
		The Malagasy Republic was proclaimed on October 14, 1958, as an autonomous state within the French Community.
	www.translation-services-usa.com /languages/malagasy.shtml (596 words)

	BBC News \| AFRICA \| Madagascar's quiet revolution (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Incumbent President Didier Ratsiraka is reduced to blocking the road from the main port, also his heartland, to the capital to starve the city of fuel - an act of desperation after declaring martial law saw him mocked, as the military failed to impose its authority.
		"Malagasy people are double-faced - one side is very sweet, smiling and charming people, but underneath there is a volcano," says Elie Rajaonarison, an expert on Malagasy culture, a poet, and an advisor to Marc Ravalomanana.
		The Malagasy people are very peaceful people, but not averse to voicing their opinions.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/africa/1877010.stm (796 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Introduction Malagasy is an Austronesian language spoken on the island of Madagascar and is closely related to Philippine languages such as Tagalog.
		The Malagasy voicing system involves aspects of grammar that are typically acquired very early and with few errors, such as word order and finite morphology.
		Thus, the acquisition of the Malagasy voicing system is interesting not only for what it can tell us about the structure of adult Malagasy, but also for the insights that it provides into the principles that guide morphosyntactic development in children.
	www.linguistics.ucla.edu /people/hyams/papers/Malagasyvoice3.doc (7118 words)

	Articles - Malagasy language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Malagasy is the westernmost member of the Austronesian language family, spoken on Madagascar, where it is an official language.
		Malagasy shares 90% of its basic vocabulary with Maanyan, a language from the region of the Barito River in southern Borneo.
		Malagasy orthography maps rather straightforwardly into phonetics, with a few exceptions.
	www.gaple.com /articles/Malagasy?mySession=7fea5b9a56c5ce7284eef61aa9275821 (466 words)

	NOVA Online \| The Wilds of Madagascar \| Malagasy Legends
		For starters, the Malagasy believe their ancestors live on in the afterworld, communicating with the living through spirit possession, taboos, and other means.
		The Malagasy hold to the inexorable forces of destiny, so much so that in former times babies born on unlucky days were put to death by, among other horrific practices, placing them alive in anthills.
		One story holds that a Malagasy who once met a kinoly asked it, "How is it your eyes are so red?" and the kinoly said, "God passed by them." The Malagasy then asked, "How is it your nails are so long?" The ghost replied "That I may tear out your liver" and immediately did so.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/nova/madagascar/surviving/legends.html (628 words)

	Rock Paper Scissors - Jaojoby, Malagasy (World Village) - Chillin' in Madagascar with Jaojoby
		Malagasy people dream of coming to America like you and I might dream of becoming the next American idol or rock star.
		The traditional sounds of Malagasy villages were soon being tweaked and recorded on 45-vinyls.
		These people have their own folklore even if they listen to the radio or watch television." The folklore that Jaojoby is talking about is music created and passed down through generations at communal celebrations, like circumcisions and exhumations called famadihanas.
	www.rockpaperscissors.biz /index.cfm/fuseaction/current.articles_detail/project_id/173/article_id/2582.cfm (1706 words)

	Dienekes' Anthropology Blog: The dual origins of the Malagasy
		We also compared mitochondrial sequence diversity in the Malagasy with a manually curated database of 19,371 hypervariable segment I sequences, incorporating both published and unpublished data.
		This agrees strikingly with the linguistic evidence that the languages spoken around the Barito River in southern Borneo are the closest extant relatives of Malagasy languages.
		As a result of their equally balanced admixed ancestry, the Malagasy may represent an ideal population in which to identify loci underlying complex traits of both anthropological and medical interest.
	dienekes.blogspot.com /2005/03/dual-origins-of-malagasy.html (332 words)

	Countries of the World: Madagascar: Chapter 2B. The Malagasy Language@ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Malagasy language is the only one in the African region that belongs to the Malayo-Polynesian language family.
		Linguists believe that it shares a common origin with, and is most closely related to, Maanyan, a language spoken in southeast Borneo.
		Both Malagasy and Maanyan apparently bear a close affinity with the languages of the western Indonesian archipelago, such as Malay, Javanese, Balinese, and the Minangkabau language of Sumatra.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1P1:28385275&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf (168 words)

	Stanford Magazine > September/October 2002 > Student Voice
		After months of reading Malagasy histories and texts, I proposed a research project on the 19th-century queen Ranavalona I. The more I learned about this ruler who threw boring lovers off cliffs and Christians into torture pits, the more I wanted to visit the country that had shaped her and been shaped by her.
		I learned that although many Malagasy laud Ranavalona as heroic for resisting European domination, their perceptions of her depend largely on their religion, age, ethnicity and background in Malagasy history.
		By the time my three weeks in Madagascar were over, I had met with more than 40 Malagasy citizens, including priests, government officials and descendants of the queen, and had become so enthralled with the culture that I became irritable when not given my weight in rice daily.
	www.stanfordalumni.org /news/magazine/2002/sepoct/departments/studentvoice.html (1375 words)

	Lioncrusher's Domain -- Malagasy Ring-tailed Mongoose (Galidia elegans) facts and pictures
		One of the smallest mongooses, the Malagasy ring-tailed is a deep ruddy color, with a head that is light brown, and their legs and underbelly are fl.
		They are a dainty-looking mongoose, with a sleek, long body set on thin short legs, and a fox-like tail that equals the length of the body, and a rounded head with a short, pointed muzzle.
		The Malagasy ring-tailed mongoose feeds on small mammals, birds and their eggs, frogs, fruits, fish, reptiles, and invertebrates.
	www.lioncrusher.com /animal.asp?animal=147 (328 words)

	Dr. Ileana Paul, Canada Research Chair in Linguistics, University of Western Ontario, Department of French, Faculty of ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Malagasy is the language spoken in Madagascar by about 15 million people.
		Malagasy belongs to the Austronesian language family, which is a very large family that also includes: Hawaiian, Indonesian, and Maori (the language of New Zealand).
		The verb-object-subject (VOS) word order of Malagasy is unusual from a typological perspective as it is only found in approximately 5% of the world's languages.
	publish.uwo.ca /~ileana/research/Malagasy.htm (158 words)

	The Malagasy National Assembly (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		"Solombavambahoaka", is the malagasy name of the deputy; freely translated it means: "those who speak in the name of the people".
		This is then its representent, its lawyer in some way, to take the people defense in front of all other governmental instances.
		Norbert Zafimahova pronounced a historical speech at the opening of this Assembly in which he invited its members to overcome their political and ethnical divisions to better erect the malagasy nation.
	www.assemblee-nationale.mg /en (144 words)

	African Languages - Bemba, Malagasy, Ruanda, Rundi (ASC)(MSU)
		Bemba belongs to the Bemba Group (Guthrie 1942) of Bantu and is spoken in the Northern, Luapula, Copperbelt, and Northwestern Central provinces of Zambia, as well as in southeastern Zaire.
		Malagasy belongs to the West Indonesian branch of Hesperonesian and is spoken in Madagascar.
		Malagasy is the national language of the Madagascar Republic.
	www.isp.msu.edu /AfrLang/language8.htm (358 words)

	REFERENCES ON MALAGASY LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTICS
		Baker, E. An outline of a grammar of the Malagasy grammar, as spoken by the Hovas.
		Dahle, L. "Studies in the Malagasy language: the compound verbal prefixes, the genitive case of nouns, the preposition 'amy'" in Antananarivo Annual.
		Raoniarisoa, N.H. Accent and intonation in a Malagasy dialect.
	www.ratsimandresy.org /book_ls.html (3765 words)

	John Hawks Anthropology Weblog : Malagasy origins
		A recent study of Malagasy Y chromosomes and mtDNA is by now old news, but it is a nice example of admixture analysis using haplotypes.
		Although the time since admixture in the Malagasy is comparatively long, the high degree of differentiation between the two ancestral populations and the even balance of their contributions suggest that excess LD might still exist.
		Admixture mapping of genes underlying complex traits is predicated on the observation that the trait itself is differentially manifested among the ancestral populations.
	johnhawks.net /weblog/reviews/genetics/other_pops/malagasy_origins_2005.html (1038 words)

	Malagasy students arrive, are welcomed to ACU, Abilene
		Also at the reception, Anthony Williams, mayor pro tem for the City of Abilene, welcomed the students on behalf of the city and presented a proclamation from the mayor declaring Aug. 4, 2004 Madagascar ACU Students Day in Abilene.
		After being formally welcomed by Dr. Dwayne VanRheenen, provost, on behalf of the faculty and administration, and by Layne Rouse, executive president of the Students’ Association, on behalf of the student body, the 22 Malagasy students participated in the reception by singing a Malagasy song to the crowd.
		If you are a member of the media who would like more information about this release, please contact Wendy Kilmer, Director of Public Relations.
	www.acu.edu /events/news/archives2004/040805_malagasy_follow.html (381 words)

	Lioncrusher's Domain -- Malagasy Civet (Fossa fossana) facts and pictures
		The Malagasy civet has short, dense pelage that is a tawny brown in color, with four rows of dark spots running along its back.
		The pair maintains a territory of up to a square mile, of which the boundaries are scent marked by both sexes by glands in and around the anus and on the cheeks.
		The Malagasy civet is threatened, probably due to deforestation.
	www.lioncrusher.com /animal.asp?animal=102 (215 words)

	Malagasy warblers
		This 'Malagasy clade' is at least 9 million years old; its closest relatives may be African warblers such as cisticolas (Cibois et al.
		Their study identified nine species in the Malagasy warblers but they suspected there were others whose genes had not yet been sequenced.
		A few birds in the Malagasy warbler groups are found in the dry southwest (including Thamnoris and Appert's Tetraka) but most occur in the humid rainforests along the eastern escarpments.
	montereybay.com /creagrus/malagasy_warblers.html (1268 words)

	About The Malagasy Children
		Infant mortality in Madagascar is over 12 times greater than in the U.S.A. and mortality for children under five years of age is over 20 times greater.
		At least one-third of Malagasy children are severely underweight and fully half are stunted.
		While all of these diseases seriously affect Malagasy children, none is more rampant than malaria, with an average of 760,000 cases and 11,000 deaths reported each year.
	www.ankizy.org /about-the-children.html (256 words)

	The Hutchinson Encyclopedia: Malagasy@ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Malagasy language is divided into many dialects and has about 9 million speakers; it belongs to the Austronesian family.
		Despite Madagascar's proximity to Africa, Malagasy contains only a small number of Bantu and Arabic loan words.
		Primarily rice farmers, the Malagasy make use both of irrigated...
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1P1:100156172&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf (144 words)

	Madagascar'a History, Culture, Cuisine and Language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		But the Malagasy diet is a varied one, and heaping mounds of rice are usually topped with zebu, an excellent local beef, as well as pork, chicken, crab, fish, corn, peanuts, and potatoes.
		The colorful language, Malagasy, like the people who use it, is a living synthesis of Indonesian, African, and Arabic elements.
		The Malagasy alphabet is therefore quite similar to the English alphabet, with the following exceptions: The Malagasy alphabet is missing the letters C, Q, U, W, and X. The letter A is always short (as in watch).
	www.air-mad.com /about_history.html (1060 words)

	Madagascar: Menus & Recipes from Africa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Despite the variety of races one language is used throughout the island, Malagasy; the second language is French.
		Malagasy tea, their own special brand (not available here), completes a most nutritious meal.
		It might be more authentic to serve this menu on mats placed on the floor, but in the cities of Malagasy dinner would be served at a table.
	www.sas.upenn.edu /African_Studies/Cookbook/Madagascar.html (1480 words)

	France renews ties with Malagasy President Ravalomanana
		France is Madagascar’s largest international creditor and dominates both Madagascar’s import and export markets: it buys 41 percent of Malagasy exports (versus 21 percent for the next largest importer from Madagascar, the US) and provides 38 percent of Malagasy imports (Hong Kong is a distant second with 10 percent).
		Moreover, an important figure in the previous Malagasy government, General Jean-Paul Bory, was recently absolved of corruption charges, easing concerns that a wave of corruption trials against former government officials undertaken by Ravalomanana might lead to a trial of Ratsiraka and the exposure of France’s role in its former colony.
		The Malagasy newspaper Midi Madigasikara reported that what food remained in drought-stricken areas was largely beyond the purchasing power of most local residents.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2003/may2003/mada-m19.shtml (1041 words)

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