Seventeenth century texts as a key to Malagasy linguistic and ethnic history
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Seventeenth century texts as a key to Malagasy linguistic and ethnic history
Original language description
Some of Madagascar’s oldest texts contain phonological information that has been lost in current Malagasy dialects. Sorabe is a Malagasy adaptation of the Arabic script. The oldest Sorabe texts date from the 17th century. They provide solid evidence for the claim that at the time Sorabe came into use, the old Malagasy it was based on still had a semivowel series, and the change from both *w to v and *y to z had not yet taken place.The oldest Malagasy text published by Europeans is Frederik de Houtman’s Malagasy-Malay-Dutch textbook from 1603, which includes an extended vocabulary list. The material was based on the dialect of Antongil Bay (on Madagascar’s northeast coast). It retains a /ny/ sound inherited from times Malagasy speakers still lived in Borneo. Although /ny/ does occur in Malagasy dialects, the original (proto-Malagasy) *ny is no longer distinguished in any of them.The paper also casts doubt on the assumption that the Sorabe script is based on the Taimoro dialect.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60204 - General literature studies
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Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
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Publication year
2023
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
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Book/collection name
De Madagascar à l’océan Indien global. Réflexions anthropologiques et historiques avec Philippe Beaujard.
ISBN
978-2-37701-109-4
Number of pages of the result
22
Pages from-to
135-156
Number of pages of the book
304
Publisher name
Hémisphères Editions
Place of publication
Maisonneuve Larose, Francie
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