Bara is a dialect of
Malagasy spoken by
Bara people
The Bara people are a Malagasy ethnic group living in the southern part of the central plateaus of Madagascar, in the Toliara Province, concentrated around their historic capital at Ihosy. The Bara are the largest of the island's zebu-herdi ...
.
Classification
Bara dialect belongs to the
Austronesian language family and part of Southern malagasy subgroup.
Geographic distribution
Bara is widely spoken in
Ihorombe
Ihorombe is a region in Madagascar
Madagascar, officially the Republic of Madagascar, is an island country that includes the island of Madagascar and numerous smaller peripheral islands. Lying off the southeastern coast of Africa, it is ...
and partially in
Menabe
Menabe is a region in western Madagascar, with its capital at Morondava. It covers an area of , and its population was 700,577 in 2018. The population mostly belongs to the Sakalava ethnic group. The region is named after the 18th-century Sakala ...
, West
Atsimo Atsinanana, and South
Vakinankaratra
Vakinankaratra is a region in central Madagascar. The capital of the region is Antsirabe. Vakinankaratra covers an area of , and had a population of 2,074,358 in 2018.
History
The kingdom of Vakinankaratra, known as the kingdom of the river Andr ...
. It is the popular dialect spoken in the city of
Ihosy.
Vocabulary
References
Verb–object–subject languages
Languages of Madagascar
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