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    Africa portal Madagascar portal The Malagasy (French: Malgache or Malagasy: Gasy) are a group of Austronesian-speaking ethnic groups indigenous to the...
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  • Malagasy in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Malagasy may refer to: Someone or something from Madagascar Malagasy people Malagasy language Malagasy Republic...
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  • Infobox language is being considered for merging. › Malagasy (/ˌmæləˈɡæsi/ MAL-ə-GASS-ee; Malagasy pronunciation: [malaˈɡasʲ]; Sorabe: مَلَغَسِ) is an...
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  • Malagasy people in France consist of migrants from Madagascar and their descendants living and working in France. The first wave of immigrants from Madagascar...
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    between both groups created the Malagasy people, who are roughly an equal mixture of both groups. They speak the Malagasy, an Austronesian language with...
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    are the largest ethnic group in Madagascar. They are the "highlander" Malagasy ethnic group of the African island and one of the country's eighteen official...
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    of the Malagasy province of Fianarantsoa, where their capital city of the same name can be found. Traditionally their territory and their people are divided...
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    The Malagasy language, of Austronesian origin, is generally spoken throughout the island. The official languages of Madagascar are Malagasy and French...
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    after the Merina and make up approximately fifteen percent of the Malagasy people. They occupy a large stretch of the eastern coastal region of Madagascar...
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    Moluccans (category Moluccan people)
    being mainly Protestant.[citation needed] Indonesia portal Proto-Malay Malagasy people "Kewarganegaraan, Suku Bangsa, Agama, Dan Bahasa Sehari-Hari Penduduk...
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    Bantu-speaking peoples absorbed or displaced many earlier inhabitants, with only a few modern peoples such as Pygmy groups in Central Africa, the Hadza people in...
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    across Malagasy ethnic groups suggests that the island's inhabitants descended from ancient Jews, and thus that the modern Malagasy and Jewish peoples share...
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  • Malagasy textile arts flourished until around 1950. Due to varied ecology in Madagascar, many different materials were used to weave with and formed various...
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    Famadihana (category Malagasy words and phrases)
    funerary tradition of the Malagasy peoples of Madagascar. During this ceremony, known as the turning of the bones, people bring forth the bodies of their...
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    Several species of Malagasy hippopotamus (also known as Malagasy pygmy hippopotamus or Madagascan pygmy hippopotamus) lived on the island of Madagascar...
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    the island on 29 November 1776, and rescued eight stranded enslaved Malagasy people who had been on the island for 15 years. Tromelin is situated in the...
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    overwhelmingly. The Comoros were likely first settled by Austronesian/Malagasy peoples, Bantu speakers from East Africa, and seafaring Arab traders. From...
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    carried with the first Austronesian settlers on their outrigger canoes. Malagasy music can be roughly divided into three categories: traditional, contemporary...
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  • The Malagasy Revolutionary Party, better known by its Malagasy acronym AREMA (from Antoko Revolisionera Malagasy), is a political party in Madagascar....
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    Madagascar (category Articles containing Malagasy-language text)
    one making lasting contributions to Malagasy cultural life. Consequently, there are 18 or more classified peoples of Madagascar, the most numerous being...
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    The Malagasy Air Force (French: Armée de l'air malgache) is the aerial warfare branch of the Madagascar People's Armed Forces. The Malagasy Air Force...
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    The indigenous peoples of Western New Guinea in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea, commonly called Papuans, are Melanesians. There is genetic evidence for...
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  • AD by two groups: Austronesian peoples who arrived on outrigger canoes from across the Indian Ocean, and Bantu peoples who crossed the Mozambique Channel...
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    example, Sikidy is the most important method of divination for the Malagasy peoples of Madagascar. The process involves a mathematical grid of disk-shaped...
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  • He is known for his research primarily in Madagascar and with the Malagasy peoples. Louis Molet was born on 18 December 1915, in Paris. He studied Protestant...
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  • This is a list of notable Malagasy musicians and musical groups. AmbondronA Vaiavy Chila Mily Clément Ninie Doniah Rakoto Frah D'Gary Régis Gizavo Eusèbe...
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    ministry of economy. The first census in 1975 counted 7.4 million Malagasy people, the second one in 1993 censused 12.3 million citizens and the 18h...
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    The culture of Madagascar reflects the origins of the Malagasy people in Southeast Asia, East Africa and Oceania. The influence of Arabs, Indians, British...
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    The Malagasy Uprising (French: Insurrection malgache; Malagasy: Tolom-bahoaka tamin' ny 1947) was a Malagasy nationalist rebellion against French colonial...
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    southeastern coast of Madagascar. Most Muslims in Madagascar are native Malagasy peoples. Other Muslim groups in the country include South Asians (such as Indians...
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