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Mahafaly dialect

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Austronesian language dialect of Madagascar

Mahafaly

Native to	Madagascar
Region	Atsimo-Andrefana region, southwestMadagascar
Ethnicity	Mahafaly people
Native speakers	472,000^[1]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Barito languages Malagasy Southern Malagasic Mahafaly
Writing system	Latin script (Malagasy alphabet)
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`tdx`
Glottolog	`maha1309`
Linguasphere	`31-LDA-cb`
Mahafaly dialect sample Two Mahafaly men from Betioky Atsimo complaining about bandit attacks and saying that they will retaliate and use mob justice if the state does not intervene.

Mahafaly is a dialect of theMalagasy language^[2]^[3] spoken by theMahafaly people in theAtsimo-Andrefana region of southwesternMadagascar.^[4]

Mahafaly belongs to theAustronesian languages family under theMalayo-Polynesian languages branch, within theBarito languages group. It is classified as a Southern Malagasic dialect alongsideSouthern Sakalava,Tandroy,Vezo,Masikoro andKarimbola.^[5]

Mahafaly is spoken by approximately 472,000 people in the arid southwest ofMadagascar, mainly in theAtsimo-Andrefana region.^[6]

^"Mahafaly in Madagascar".Joshua Project. Retrieved29 June 2025.Population 472,000
^Grimes, Barbara F. (2000).Ethnologue: Languages of the World (14th ed.). Summer Institute of Linguistics. p. 293.ISBN 9780883128152.
^McElroy, Colleen J. (1999).Over the Lip of the World: Among the Storytellers of Madagascar. University of Michigan Press. p. xxii.
^Ferrand, Gabriel (1903).Essai de phonétique comparée du malais et des dialectes malgaches : thèse pour le doctorat d'université (in French). Paris: Ernest Leroux, Libraire-Éditeur. p. XXXIX.
^Bright, William (1992).International Encyclopedia of Linguistics.Oxford University Press. p. 205.ISBN 9780195051964.
^Molet, Louis (1957).Petit guide de toponymie malgache(PDF) (in French). Tananarive: Scientific Research Institute of Madagascar, Department of Human Sciences. pp. map (unnumbered) + p. 7.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: ref duplicates default (link) The map is placed before the numbered pages.

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