Central Malagasy

Journal of the International Phonetic Association ◽

10.1017/s0025100319000100 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 1-34

Author(s):

Penelope Howe

Keyword(s):

Central Area ◽

Capital City ◽

The South ◽

East African ◽

East African Coast ◽

Austronesian Language ◽

Regional Dialects ◽

African Coast ◽

Central Highlands ◽

Primary Basis

Malagasy is the westernmost Austronesian language and belongs to the South East Barito subgroup of the Western Malayo-Polynesian subfamily (Dahl 1988, Rasoloson & Rubino 2005). Dahl (1951) presents widely-accepted evidence that Malagasy is most closely related to the Indonesian language Ma’anyan of Kalimantan (South Borneo). The term Malagasy refers to a macrolanguage (Lewis, Simons & Fennig 2014), with many regional dialects distributed throughout the island of Madagascar, which lies off the east African coast across from Mozambique (see Figure 1) and has a population of over 22 million (INSTAT 2018). The central area of the country, or the ‘Central Highlands’, is a plateau of up to 5000 feet and includes the capital city of Antananarivo, with a metropolitan population of about four million. The dialect historically spoken in and around Antananarivo is called Merina, and it served as the primary basis for development of the standardized, institutional language referred to as Malagasy Ofisialy ‘Official Malagasy’ (OM).

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Trade and society on the south-east African coast in the later first millennium AD: the case of Chibuene

Antiquity ◽

10.1017/s0003598x00047876 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 86 (333) ◽

pp. 723-737 ◽

Cited By ~ 37

Author(s):

Paul Sinclair ◽

Anneli Ekblom ◽

Marilee Wood

Keyword(s):

Local Community ◽

East Coast ◽

Power Structures ◽

The South ◽

East African ◽

East African Coast ◽

African Coast ◽

First Millennium ◽

The Indian Ocean ◽

Beach Site

The south-east coast of Africa in the later first millennium was busy with boats and the movement of goods from across the Indian Ocean to the interior. The landing places were crucial mediators in this process, in Africa as elsewhere. Investigations at the beach site of Chibuene show that a local community was supplying imported beads to such interior sites as Schroda, with the consequent emergence there of hierarchical power structures.

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Crustacea

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London ◽

10.1098/rstl.1879.0051 ◽

1879 ◽

Vol 168 ◽

pp. 485-496 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Keyword(s):

New Species ◽

South African ◽

Eastern Coast ◽

Special Study ◽

The South ◽

East African ◽

East African Coast ◽

African Coast ◽

The Indian Ocean ◽

The Subject

The Crustacea collected by Messrs. G. Gulliver and H. H. Slater amount in all to 189 specimens, representing 35 species. All of these are forms that are widely distributed throughout the Indo-Pacific or Oriental Region (which includes the eastern coast of Africa, the south and east of Asia and islands adjacent, Australia, and the islands of Polynesia), with the following exceptions:— Atergatopsis signatus (hitherto only known from the Mauritius), Caridina typus (original locality not known), Palœmon dispar (hitherto recorded only from the Malayan Archipelago), Palœmon hirtimanus (from Mauritius, Réunion, and the Indian Ocean), P. debilis (from Amboina and the Sandwich Islands), and the new species of Talitrus ( T. gulliver i), which is described below. With two exceptions all the species in the collection belong to the Podophthalmia . The following are the sub-tribes represented, with the number of species belonging to each :— The Crustacea inhabiting the Red Sea have been made the subject of special study by Rüppell and Heller, those of Madagascar and the islands adjacent by Hoffmann, of Mauritius and Réunion by Alphonse Milne-Edwards, and of the South African coast by M’Leay and Krauss. Valuable additions to our knowledge of the Crustacea of the East African coast have been published by Hilgendorf, in Van der Decken’s “Reisen in Ost-Afrika,” where will also be found a conspectus of all the known species of East African Crustacea by Von Martens. So far as I am aware, however, no species have hitherto been recorded as inhabiting the Island of Rodriguez.

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