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| Selected languages: | Malagasy |
| UPSID number: | 2410 |
| Alternate name(s): | N/A |
| Classification: | Austro-Tai, W. Malayo-Polynesian |
| The languages has | 25 segments |
| Frequency index: | N/A |
| Sounds: | [p] [b] [t̪] [d̪] [k] [ɡ] [*s] [*z] [f] [v] [ɽr̥] [ɽr] [t̪s̪] [d̪z̪] [*r] [*l] [w] [j] [m] [*n] [i] [o] [e̞] [ä] [h] |
| Comments: | Malagasy is spoken in Madagascar and in Comoros |
| Sources: | Dahl, O.C. 1952. Etude de phonologie et de phonetique Dyen, I. 1971. Malagasy. In T.A. Sebeok (ed.), Current |