Alternate Names: Antakarana, Antakarana Malagasy, Antekarana, Antekarana Malagasy, Tankarana, Tankarana Malagasy
Dialects: Lexical similarity: 71% with the Merina dialect of Plateau Malagasy ,. A member of macrolanguage Malagasy ,.
Genealogy:
Demographics: 330,000 (2006).
Typology: VOS.
Nation of Origin: Madagascar