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- From: delancey@darkwing.uoregon.edu (Scott C DeLancey)
- Newsgroups: sci.anthropology
- Subject: Re: Ethnicity of the Carthaginians?
- Date: 2 Jan 1993 21:04:22 GMT
- Organization: University of Oregon Network Services
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- In article <1993Jan1.224411.1@acad3.alaska.edu> nsmca@acad3.alaska.edu writes:
-
- >Must not forget MAdagasgar (bit that was a mixed Black African Arab Trader
- >country. Reason for the rise of Swahili. A trade tongue based on a Bantu Lingo
- >with a lot of borrowing from arabic..
-
- Just for the record, the language of Madagascar is Malagasy, which is
- Autronesian, related to Malay-Indonesian and the Polynesian languages.
- This is, as far as I know, also the major ethnic/cultural element on
- the island.
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- Scott DeLancey
- Department of Linguistics
- University of Oregon
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