Antaimoro dialect

Antaimoro is a dialect of Malagasy spoken by Antemoro people in the region of Fitovinany. ^[2]

Antaimoro
Zakan'Atemoro
Native to	Madagascar
Ethnicity	Antemoro people
Native speakers	1,327,000 [1]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Western Indonesian Barito East Barito Central-Eastern Malagasic Plateaux malagasy Antaimoro
Writing system	Latin script (Malagasy alphabet)
Language codes
ISO 639-1	Mg
ISO 639-3	Plt
Glottolog	anta1259
Linguasphere	31-LDA-bb
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Classification

Antaimoro is an Austronesian language part of the Plateaux malagasy group.

Characteristics

Antaimoro is very simillar and it can be mistaken to Antaifasy dialect. The difference between the two dialects are quiet small.

Vocabulary

Numerals

English gloss	Malagasy standard gloss	Antaimoro gloss
One	Iray/Isa	Iraika/Isa
Two	Roa	Roa
Three	Telo	Telo
Four	Efatra	Efatra
Five	Dimy	Dimy
Six	Enina	Enina
Seven	Fito	Fito
Eight	Valo	Valo
Nine	Sivy	Sivy
Ten	Folo	Folo
Hundred	Zato	Zato
Thousand	Arivo	Arivo
Ten thousand	Iray halina	Ray haligny
One hundred thousand	Iray hetsy	Ray hetsy
One million	Tapitrisa	Tapitrisa

Animals

English gloss	Malagasy standard gloss	Antaifasy gloss
Animal	Biby	Biby
Bird	Vorona	Vorogny
Duck	Ganagana	Ganagana
Chicken	Akoho	Akoho
Goose	Gisa	Gisa
Cow	Omby	Aomby
Sheep	Ondry	Ondry

Direction

English gloss	Malagasy standard gloss	Antaifasy gloss
North	Avaratra	Avaratry
South	Atsimo	Atsimo
East	Atsinanana	Atsignanagna
West	Andrefana	Andrefagna

Time

English gloss	Malagasy standard gloss	Antaifasy gloss
Day	Andro	Andro
Today	Anio/Androany	Androany
Yesterday	Omaly	Omaly
Tomorrow	Rahampitso	Omaray/Ampitso
Month	Volana	Volagna
Year	Taona	Taogna