Le Coton de Tuléar is fromMadagascar. Here some words in Malagasy that can give us some ideas to find names to our fur kids.

 

Thank you to the "Dico Malgache" team http://dico.malgache.free.fr who allow us to reproduce here some words. Don't hesitate to visit their website (in French) to read all the dictionnaries. You'll find too Malagasy grammar (extracts below), guides to speak ...

Some words are repeated 2 times, because there are several idioms on the island.

 

There are 21 letters in the Malagasy alphabet, letters C, Q, U, W et X don't exist.

In the French words adapted in Malagasy these letters has been replaced :

  • C became S ou K
  • Q bacame K
  • X became KS

There are 5 simple vowels : a, e, i, o (they can be pronouced in accordance with their place in the word like in French, or in English) and y (pronounced e)

Just click on the letters

A - B - D/E - F- G/H/I - J/K/L - M/N - O/P/R/S - T/V/Z

 

 

 

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