Alternate Names: Tandroy
Dialects: Lexical similarity: 62% with the Merina dialect of Plateau Malagasy ,. A member of macrolanguage Malagasy ,.
Genealogy:
Demographics: 1,300,000 (2006). Tandroy 865,000; Mahafaly 330,000; Karimbola 103,000.
Nation of Origin: Madagascar