Many geographic place names were similarly altered in this time from their previous French spellings following Malagasy independence in 1960.

Vaγimba-" Those of the forest " in Proto – Southeast Barito ( a former Austronesian language whose modern branch called " Barito languages " includes the Malagasy language | Malagasy and the languages spoken by the Dayak people | Dayaks peoples of the Barito river in South Kalimantan | Borneo: ma ' anyan language | Ma ' anyan, Dusun Deyah, Dusun Malang, Dusun Witu, and Paku.

Pangasinan is similar to the Tagalog and Ilocano languages that are spoken in the Philippines, Indonesian in Indonesia, Malay in Malaysia, and Malagasy in Madagascar.

The Merina are concentrated in the Highlands and speak the official dialect of the Malagasy language, which is a branch of the Malayo-Polynesian language group derived from the Barito languages, spoken in southern Borneo.

The Betsileo speak a dialect of the Malagasy language, which is a branch of the Malayo-Polynesian language group derived from the Barito languages, spoken in southern Borneo.

Mauritania and Madagascar are the only remaining countries that do not use the decimal system ; instead, the Mauritanian ouguiya is divided into 5 khoums, while the Malagasy ariary is divided into 5 iraimbilanja.

It is the only known breeding site outside Aldabra and Madagascar for Malagasy Pond Herons.

* Malagasy Mountain Mullet, Acentrogobius therezieni, a species of fish in the Gobiidae family endemic to Madagascar

Madagascar, officially the Republic of Madagascar ( ; ) and previously known as the Malagasy Republic, is an island country in the Indian Ocean, off the southeastern coast of Africa.

Other groups continued to settle on Madagascar over time, each one making lasting contributions to Malagasy cultural life.

In the Malagasy language, the island of Madagascar is called Madagasikara and its people are referred to as Malagasy.

The written history of Madagascar began with the Arabs, who established trading posts along the northwest coast by at least the 10th century and introduced Islam, the Arabic script ( used to transcribe the Malagasy language in a form of writing known as sorabe ), Arab astrology and other cultural elements.

The occupation of France during the Second World War tarnished the prestige of the colonial administration in Madagascar and galvanized the growing independence movement, leading to the Malagasy Uprising of 1947.

As Merina dominance expanded over neighboring Malagasy peoples in the early 19th century to establish the Kingdom of Madagascar, Antananarivo became the center of administration for virtually the entire island.

* SO l ' Emyrne, the football section of a Malagasy sports club based in Antananarivo, Madagascar

** The Malagasy Republic, now Madagascar, becomes independent from France

Three species of Malagasy Hippopotamus became extinct during the Holocene on Madagascar, one of them within the past 1, 000 years.

During an official visit to Madagascar on 21 July 2005, Chirac described the repression of the 1947 Malagasy uprising, which left between 80, 000 and 90, 000 dead, as " unacceptable ".

Malagasy is an adjective referring to Madagascar.

Between the 16th and 18th centuries, pirate activity in the coastal areas of Madagascar was common and the celebrated free pirate colony of Libertatia was established on Saint Mary's Island, originally populated by local Malagasy.

Factual information about the peopling of Madagascar remains incomplete, but much recent multidisciplinary research and work in archaeology, genetics, linguistics, and history confirms that the Malagasy people were originally and overwhelmingly Austronesian, native to the Indonesian archipelago.

The written history of Madagascar begins in the 7th century when Omani Arabs and Shirazi Persians established trading posts along the northwest coast and introduced Islam, the Arabic script ( used to transcribe the Malagasy language in a form of writing known as sorabe ), Arab astrology and other cultural elements.

According to the traditions of some Malagasy peoples, the first Bantus and Arabs to settle in Madagascar came as refugees from the civil wars that followed the death of Mohammed in 632.

Fever, dysentery, hostile Malagasy, and the trying arid climate of southern Madagascar soon terminated the English settlement near Toliary ( Tuléar ) in 1646.

The British accepts in the Berlin Treaty the claims of France to exert its influence on Madagascar and a treaty of alliance between France and Malagasy was signed in December 17, 1885 by Queen Ranavalona III.

* Thompson, V. ( 1965 ) The Malagasy Republic: Madagascar today.

* Kent, Raymond K., From Madagascar to the Malagasy Republic, Greenwood Press, 1962.

Madagascar was colonized, and during World War II over 46, 000 Malagasy soldiers were drafted to fight with the Allies, over 2, 000 of whom lost their lives fighting for France.

* February 18 – Meermin slave mutiny: captive Malagasy people seize a Dutch East India Company slave ship in the Indian Ocean.

Indian Ocean Creole languages are based on European languages with elements from Malagasy and possibly other Asian languages.

* In the Northwest area of the current Ankoala ( from kuala, " estuary " in Malay and Indonesian ) where the Hova Orang Laut ( Antalaotra in Malagasy ) had probably established their base for their Indian Ocean operations.

Ethnic groups present include people of European, African, Malagasy, Indian and Chinese origin.

Birds of Aldabra include the Aldabra rail, the last surviving flightless bird of the Indian Ocean region, and the endangered Malagasy Sacred Ibis as well as large numbers of nesting seabirds.

Since then, numerous ethnicities have crossed over and mixed, among which are populations of Bantu, Malagasy, Indonesian, Arab, Portuguese, French and Indian origin.

A monograph of the Monimiaceae ( Laurales ) in the Malagasy Region ( Southwest Indian Ocean ).

More than 70 % of native population has Afro-Asian ancestry stemming from African, Malagasy, Indian and Chinese peoples, combined with additional French and British origins.

The Indian genetics also displayed significant frequencies, the mtDNA contribution stands at 13. 85 % and Y-DNA at 9. 65 %, and lastly the East / South East Asian Y-DNA in the Cape coloured also displayed a significant frequency at 8. 54 % but with a very low contribution of Southeast East Asian mtDNA at only 1. 6 %, some of the Southeast Asian contribution from the Cape colored gene pool may have partially derived from both Southeast East Asian and Malagasy who both also exhibit haplogroups O1a and O2a and B4a, B5a, F1c.

The voices heard on this album were based on recordings of speech and singing in numerous languages: Aboriginal, Afghan, Arabic, Balinese, Buhndi, Chinese, Dutch ( Ethnicolor II-3: 15 ), English, Eskimo, French, German, Hungarian, Indian, Japanese, Malagasy, Malayan, Pygmy, Polish, Quechua, Russian, Sioux, Spanish, Swedish, Tibetan and Turkish.

There are three species of landbirds present, one of which is an endemic subspecies of the Malagasy White-eye ( Zosterops maderaspatanus voeltzkowi ).

The Malagasy ethnic group is often divided into eighteen or more sub-groups of which the largest are the Merina of the central highlands.

During the 2009 Malagasy political crisis, Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov stated that Russia is " concerned by the increased frequency of attempts on the African continent to resort to non-constitutional methods of solving internal political problems.

This money is intended to secure Malagasy credit, and to cover additional financing gaps caused by recent natural disasters.

* 1961 – The African and Malagasy Union is founded.

* December – African and Malagasy Organisation for Economic Cooperation ( OAMCE ) ( Organisation Africain et Malagache de Coopération Économique ) is established.

There is fossil evidence that many Malagasy Hippos were hunted by humans, a likely factor in their eventual extinction.

The taro ( saonjo in Malagasy ) is, according to an old Malagasy proverb, " the elder of the rice " ( Ny saonjo no zokin ' ny vary ), and was also a staple diet for all the ancient Austronesians

We know, for example, that the Malagasy myth of the ogre Trimo be – " eater of children " is a story brought by the Austronesians and in fact is about the tiger ( from * ( t ) rimau, " tiger " in Proto-MP ) who lives in the forests of the Sunda Islands.

This substratum is especially significantly present in the domestic and agricultural vocabulary ( e. g. omby or aombe, " beef ", from Swahili ng ' ombe ; tongolo " onion " from Swahili kitunguu ; Malagasy nongo " pot " from nunggu in Swahili ).

Those new immigrants of the Middle Ages were a minority in numbers, yet their cultural contributions, political and technological to the neo-Vazimba and neo-Vezo world substantially altered their society and is the cause of the major upheavals of the sixteenth that led to the Malagasy feudal era.

This is interesting because Malagasy winter temperatures sometimes rise to over, so hibernation is not exclusively an adaptation to low ambient temperatures.

The falcon is a traditional symbol of the Malagasy sovereign.

The Malagasy name for the animal is.

" Koto " is a Malagasy word for " little boy ", and " baba " is a term for " father ", so the word " babakoto " may be translated as " father of a little boy.