Alternate Names: Tsimihety
Dialects: Lexical similarity: 68% with the Merina dialect of Plateau Malagasy ,. A member of macrolanguage Malagasy ,.
Genealogy:
Demographics: 1,615,000 (2011).
Language Development: Bible portions: 1924.
Typology: VOS.
Writing System: Latin
Nation of Origin: Madagascar