Malagasy
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For more information on Standard Malagasy, see w:Malagasy language
| Malagasy | |
|---|---|
| Pronunciation | [mɑləˈgɑsi] |
| Language family | Paleo-Oberian B |
| Era | now |
| Writing system | Latin |
| Official status | |
| Spoken in | Bootland |
| Speaker | |
| Endonym | Malagasy [malagaʃ] |
| Exonym | Russian: Малагасийский |
| Technical information | |
| Usage | Official language |
| Language code | mlg |
Malagasy (natively: [malagaʃ]) is a Paleo-Oberian B language spoken in the Duchy of Bootland as a co-official language.
Phonology
Vowels
Bootlandic Malagasy, unlike the standard variety, has a phonemic schwa, spelled <â>.
Consonants
Bootlandic Malagasy merges the retroflex plosives with their alveolar counterparts both in writing and in speech, so a word such as Standard Malagasy "adiditra" [adidiʈə] is instead "adidita" [adiditə] in Bootlandic Malagasy. It also fortifies /h/ to /x/, adds the phonemes /ɣ ʃ/ <gh ś>, merges /ŋ/ with /ᵑɡ/, and respells /(ⁿ)t͡s/ as <(n)c>.