Kiantalaotsy

Kiantalaotsy
Kiantalaotsy
Native to	Madagascar;
Ethnicity	Antalaotra
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Western Indonesian Barito East Barito Northern malagasic Bushi Kiantalaotsy; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Writing system	Latin script (Malagasy alphabet);
Language codes
ISO 639-3	buc
Glottolog	kian1236
Linguasphere	31-LDA-gb

A native speaker of Kibushi Kimaore or Kibushi Sakalava, a dialect with few distinctions from Kiantalaotsy.

Kiantalaotsy is a northern dialect of Malagasy in Mayotte. It's a dialect of Bushi. ^[1]

Classification

Kiantalaotsy belongs to the Austronesian language family. It is part of Northern Malagasic subgroup along with Tsimihety, Northern Sakalava, Northern Betsimisaraka and Antakarana.^[2]

Kiantalaotsy is only spoken especially in Poroani and Ouangani.

The differences between those to dialects of Bushi are Small.

^ Mayotte: Actes du Colloque universitaire, Mamoudzou, 23–24 avril 1991 à l'occasion du 150e anniversaire du rattachement à la France. Page 76.
^ Gueunier, Noël Jacques (2011). Contes comoriens en dialecte malgache de l'île de Mayotte : la quête de la sagesse (in French). L’Harmattan. p. 2.