Karimbola dialect

Karimbola is a dialect of the Malagasy language spoken by the Karimbola people in southern Madagascar.^[2]

Karimbola
Native to	Madagascar
Ethnicity	Karimbola people[1]
Native speakers	182,000
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Western Indonesian Barito East Barito Southern Malagasic Karimbola
Writing system	Latin script (Malagasy alphabet)
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
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Classification

Karimbola belongs to the Austronesian language family, specifically the Southern Malagasic subgroup. It shares similarities with other dialects like Antandroy and Mahafaly.

Geographic distribution

The Karimbola dialect is spoken in the district of Beloha in the Androy region of southern Madagascar.^[3]