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This paper emphasizes that the present languages of Madagascar(the national language "Malagasy" is based on the Merina dialect) havebeen formed through the process of the pidginization of Javanese.Javanese was the language of the latest immigrants, who navigated fromIndonesia about A. D. 1400 and conquered most of Madagascar foundingthe Merina Kingdom. As a lingua franca Javanese spread throughoutthe country and got creolized with the language of the antecedent occupantsof Madagascar, who were composed of the coexistent peoples,including the preceding Indonesians, Africans, and Arabs.The initial Austronesian settlement might have been, as 0. C. Dahlsupposed, underway by about A. D. 400 among the Barito peoples inSouth Kalimantan under the reign of the Indianized Kutai Kingdom atthat time.Inth is paper, Sakiyama suggests the appropriateness of that datingby accumulating the regional cognates, which are characteristic of thetwo areas, Madagascar and South Kalimantan, and by presenting thedistinct Javanicisms which appeared subsequently in modern Malagasyidioms.In particular, by basing its analysis on the comparison of the folkvocabulariesand the plant names from a standpoint of the semanticchanges, this study will become a first attempt to chronologize and todetermine the original places of Madagascar migration and its languageformations.The author's presentation on migrations has the following stages inthis paper: 1. Pre-South Kalimantan and South Sulawesi Age, 2. Post-South Kalimantan Age, 3. East Africa Age, 4. Java and Sumatra Age. |
