Malagasy

We can only guess what it would have sounded like, because it was before there were written records, and it's not like audio recordings existed thousands of years ago.

Other large language families that have been reconstructed around the world include Proto-Semitic, the ancestor language of Semitic languages like Arabic, Imharic in Hebrew, Proto-Algonquian, the ancestor language of Algonquian languages like Cree, Ojibwe, and Massachusetts, Proto-Austronesian, the ancestor language of Austronesian languages like Javanese, Tagalog, and Malagasy, Proto-Paminyangan, the ancestor language of Paminyangan languages like Yaumnu, Karna, and Darug, and Proto-Bantu, the ancestor language of Bantu languages, including Swahili, Zulu, and Shona.

Sometimes, even after years of careful study, a language doesn't have any evidence of being related to any other language, near or far.

These languages are known as isolates, and examples include Basque in Spain and France, Ainu in Japan, and Korean.

And in turn, that protects you from the bad spirits and witches of the rainforest.

The Malagasy are very superstitious.

They really believe in witches and spirits.

And so I wasn't just summiting the highest mountain.

He stood up.

He saw that we were still convulsing.

And he shouted, hey, oi, in Malagasy.

And this thing outside of the door gave a little giggle, started to walk away.

And this is me praying with him, praying for him.

And I go up to him every day and I tell him that Jesus loves him in Malagasy.

And he goes, Amenna.

And I said, Aaron, you're a child of God.

And we named each of the individuals after a different rice variety.

And so Kalila was a name of a rice variety in Malagasy.

And she, I've got a photo of her on my laptop and she was just, I don't know what it was about her, but she was captivating.

So probably

and examples of ways in which you can raise money, you can donate.

They also support in-country conservationists.

So they have small grants and offer grants for professional development of Malagasy researchers.

So there's so many ways you can do it on your sofa at home.

Across 20 language models, only 41 African languages are represented, according to findings published in the Proceedings of Machine Learning Research.

Meanwhile, over 98% of African languages are unsupported, and just four – Amharic, Swahili, Afrikaans, and Malagasy – are always handled.

The lack of African languages in AI models has become a major concern for the continent's policymakers and tech leaders, said Semaphore.

Africa has only 0.6% of global data center capacity, despite accounting for 18% of the world's population, according to World Bank estimates.

And he started talking about these people and he started saying, which is a very Dutch name.

And I speak Malagasy with them.

And then all of a sudden there's this Dutch name.

So you are clearly, he knew things about my family that I didn't even know.

So it helped them to stay mentally well because they felt that they are supported by other people physically, daily life, but also not physically by the ancestors.

And that helped them to deal with hardship.

So in my case, and Malagasy would have that same vice, they would feel like they have the resources to deal with the pain because they are supported by this whole network of social relations that helps them to cope.

And that to me was such a tremendously interesting point because we are very biological into dealing with ailments and particularly where it becomes ailments of the mind, you see, or hardship of the minds here in the Netherlands.

12 albums came out of that trip.

Every dollar went to the Malagasy musicians, and one of those records changed how I hear the guitar.

His name is Henry Kaiser, and this is Tones of Vinyl.

Henry, it's great to have you on the show.

We know everybody there, too." I'm like, "Okay." So then this was set to go on the Rykodisc label, and everything was set up, and it's about three weeks, four weeks before we're supposed to go.

And we planned everything out, and one of the things Lindley and I did is that we took no money from those recordings.

All of the money goes to the Malagasy artists.

We tried to make up for the kinds of horrible things that Paul Simon, David Byrne, Peter Gabriel had done.

Austronesian includes Indonesian and Malay in Southeast Asia, Tagalog in the Philippines, and Maori and Hawaiian in the Pacific, to name just a few.

Its westernmost outlier is Malagasy, spoken in Madagascar, while its eastern reaches extend across the Pacific to places such as Hawaii and Aotearoa in New Zealand.

Few language families offer such a striking illustration of how far languages can travel, while retaining evidence of common ancestry.

How did this happen? Well, the expansion of Austronesian languages is closely associated with the seafaring populations who moved through Southeast Asia and into the Pacific over several millennia.

Language, culture and population history overlap, but they're not interchangeable.

Geography can also mislead us.

Malagasy is related to languages of Ireland's Southeast Asia, despite being spoken off the coast of Africa, while Brahui belongs to the Dravidian family, despite its location in modern Pakistan.

Neither case can be understood simply by looking at whether languages are spoken today.

on the plane, you know, on my computer, but I hadn't put my, the bird calls on my iPods.

So I met, uh, the driver, his name was Ito, a very Malagasy sounding name.

I met Ito and he, I liked him right away because he wasn't wasting time.

He was like, we need to go right now.