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Malagasy is the westernmost member of the Austronesian language family, spoken on Madagascar, where it is an official language. It has the highly unusual Verb Object Subject constituent order. This article is about the alphabet officially used in linguistics. ...
Phonetics (from the Greek word phone = sound/voice) is the study of speech sounds (voice). ...
In computing, Unicode is the international standard whose goal is to provide the means to encode the text of every document people want to store in computers. ...
Technical Note: Most IPA symbols are not included in Times New Roman, the default font for Latin scripts in Internet Explorer for Windows. ...
The Austronesian languages are a family of languages widely dispersed throughout the islands of Southeast Asia and the Pacific, with a few members spoken on continental Asia. ...
Madagascar is an island nation in the Indian Ocean, off the eastern coast of Africa. ...
An official language is something that is given a unique status in the countries, states, and other territories. ...
Verb Object Subject - commonly used in its abbreviated form VOS - is a term in Linguistic typology. ...
Words are accented on the penult, unless the word ends in ka, tra or na, in which case it is accented on the antepenult. Unstressed vowels are often elided; thus fanorona is pronounced /fa'nurn/ ("fa-NOORN") and Malagasy sounds like its French transliteration Malgache. In music, see elision (music). ...
Fanorona is a board game indigenous to Madagascar and derived from Alquerque. ...
Malagasy orthography maps rather straightforwardly into phonetics, with few exceptions. The letter i is replaced by y at the end of words, and o is pronounced /u/. The orthography of a language is the set of rules of how to write correctly in the writing system of a language. ...
The alphabet consists of 21 letters: a, b, d, e, f, g, h, i, j, k, l, m, n, o, p, r, s, t, v, y, z. The letters Ô (o-circumflex) and n̈ (n-diaeresis) are occasionally used, for instance in place names such as Tôlan̈aro, Antsiran̈ana, Iharan̈a, Anantson̈o. This can be seen in in maps from FTM, the national institute of geodesy and cartography. Alternative spellings and pronounciations such as "Taolagnaro" exist. The circumflex ( ˆ ) is a diacritic mark used in written Greek, French, Esperanto, Norwegian, Romanian, Slovak, Vietnamese, Japanese romaji, Welsh, Portuguese, Italian, and other languages. ...
In linguistics, a diaeresis or dieresis (AE) (from Greek diairein, to divide) is the modification of a syllable by distinctly pronouncing one of its vowels. ...
Dictionaries The first known Vocabulaire Anglais-Malagasy was published in 1729. An 892 pages long Malagasy-English dictionary was published by James Richardson of the London Missionary Society in 1885. It's available as a reprint. It seems that a similar English-Malagasy dictionary never was published. Later works have been of lesser size. There have been a number of notable people named James Richardson: James Richardson (wrongfully accused) was a man who spent 21 years inside a Florida prison for a crime he did not commit. ...
- Richardson: A New Malagasy-English Dictionary. Farnborough, England: Gregg Press 1967, 892 p. ISBN 0576116076
- Diksionera Malagasy-Englisy. Antananarivo: Trano Printy Loterana 1973, 103 p.
- An Elementary English-Malagasy Dictionary. Antananarivo: Trano Printy Loterana 1969, 118 p.
- English-Malagasy Phrase Book. Antananarivo: Editions Madprint 1973, 199 p. (Les Guides de Poche de Madagasikara.)
- Paginton, K: English-Malagasy Vocabulary. Antananarivo: Trano Printy Loterana 1970, 192 p.
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