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Migration from Kalimantan to Madagascar

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In 1951 Otto Christian Dahl demonstrated the close affinity of Malagasy to the Ma'anyan language in SE Kalimantan (the Indonesian part of Borneo). Thus the ancestors of the Malagasy must have migrated from Kalimantan to Madagascar. In the present book Dahl substantiates, from linguistic, cultural and historical evidence, why, how and when this migration took place. The actual time of the migration is determined by means of an inscription, partly in old Ma'anyan, found on Bangka and dated AD 686, and the Sanskrit loanwords in Malagasy, which were most likely borrowed from the Srivijaya society at that time. This dating has been further corroborated by archaeological findings of human traces in Madagascar from around AD 700. Still earlier voyages across the Indian Ocean are also discussed. In Madagascar the Ma'anyan merged with a Bantu substratum which has had a great influence on the later development of the Malagasy language.

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Ketersediaan

0299-2013

304.85984 0 691 Dah m

Perpustakaan Diplomasi

Tersedia

Informasi Detail

Judul Seri

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No. Panggil

304.85984 0 691 Dah m

Penerbit

Norway : Norwegian University Press., 1991

Deskripsi Fisik

143 pages : maps, index ; 24 cm

Bahasa

English

ISBN/ISSN

82-00-21140-1

Klasifikasi

304.85984 0 691

Tipe Isi

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Tipe Media

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Tipe Pembawa

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Edisi

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Subjek

History--Madagascar--Human Colonisation
Language--Linguistics--Comparative
Linguistics
Archaeology--Madagascar--Early settlers

Info Detail Spesifik

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Pernyataan Tanggungjawab

Otto Chr. Dahl

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