Sihanaka dialect

Sihanaka
Sihanaka
Native to	Madagascar;
Ethnicity	Sihanaka
Native speakers	695,000
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Western Indonesian Barito East Barito Central-Eastern Malagasic Plateaux malagasy Sihanaka; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Writing system	Latin script (Malagasy alphabet);
Language codes
ISO 639-1	Mg
ISO 639-3	Plt
Glottolog	siha1244
Linguasphere	31-LDA-ab
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Sihanaka is a dialect of Malagasy spoken by Sihanaka people.^[2]

Classification

Sihanaka is an austronesian language part of the Plateaux branch of Malagasy language.

Northern dialects like Tsimihety and Northern Betsimisaraka influence a lot the Sihanaka language.

v t e Languages of Madagascar
Official languages	French Malagasy
Malagasy dialects	Antefasy Tanosy Bezanozano Antambahoaka Vezo Sihanaka Tanala Antakarana Antesaka Tsimihety Northern Sakalava Antaimoro Bara Southern Betsimisaraka Northern Betsimisaraka
Foreign languages	English
Sign languages	Malagasy Sign Language