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At Las Ethn O - Linguistique C Onc Ern Ant 71 D. Madagascar INTRODUCTION .. L '6ch anti 11on de 1 'At las ethn o - linguistique c onc ern ant Madagascar, que nous prdsenton ici, comprend : 1. Une liste des groupes ethniques presents à Madagascar en 1964 avec le nombre de leurs reprdsentants. 2. Une liste des ouvrages ou .articles auxquels nous avons eu recours. La prospection de vocabulaires recueillis n'a pas ét6 trEs poussde ; notamment nous n'avons pas encore pris contact avec M. Ch. RAVOAJANAI-IARY, Directeur du D6partement de la Langue Malgache afin de prendre connaissance des rdsultats des enquetes sur le terrain effectuées par l'organisme qu'il dirige ; ni avec le matériel qui a permis 2 MM. C. KOTTAK et P. VERIN de rdaliser une btude de glottochronologie sur les dialectes malgaches. 3. Une carte portant les emplacements approches et un numgrotage des principaux parlers malgaches. Au sujet du numdrotage, nous avons effedtué un itindraire arbitraire, ,nous sommes partis de l'extrlme-nord de la Grande fle et l'avons contourn6 dans le sens con- traire des aiguilles d'une montre, puis, revenant au nord, nous avons numdrotd les parlers de l'intérieur des terres, du nord au sud. Le fond de carte a Btd rdalisé par Mme VERGNEAU du Laboratoire de cartographie de I'EPHE d'aprks la carte au I : S.000.000e de l'kerican Geographical Society of New York. 4, Une présentation, sou's la forme d'un tableau, des termes CHIEN, DENT et SEL dans les diff6rents parlers malgaches, avec, dans l'ordre : 72 a. le chiffre romain note le numdro du parler b. entre parenthèses, le lieu estimé où a dtd recueilli le terme ; c. le numéro origine du matdriel, c'est-2-dire celui \ de la liste des termes ; d. la lettre en petit caractère et entre parenthèses, indique le degré (a, b, c, d, etc, ) de la fréquence d'emploi du terme quand celui-ci, pour un m2me parler, entre en concurrence avec d'autres ; e. entre parenthèses, la date estimée de la collecte du terme ; . f. le nom de l'enqusteur ou de l'auteur d'un voyage d'où . * est extrait le terme relevé. Cet échantillon de l'Atlas ethno-linguistique sur Madagascar a été réa1is.é avec. le concollrs de MM. DEZ J., KOECHLIN B. et OTTINO P. I. Extrait de : .. Population de Madagascar au ler janvier 1964 Institut national de la statistique et de la recherche 1;conomique (Ministère des finances et du commerce) A nt aifasy 39. 961 Ant a i m or o 211.346 . A nt a is aka 368.062 , Ant akar ana 41. 894 Antambahoaka 22. 304 Antamdroy 3 26. 616 Antanosy 148 .880 Bara 2 27.864 . .II Betsileo 7 35.790 Bet si in is ar aka 9 14.-670 Bezanozano. 43.991 73 h.!Ahafaly ' 90.593 Makoa 66. 683 Merina 1. 569. 649 S aint-Mariens 14.346 Sakalava 369. 3 78 ue S ihanaka 135. O01 Tanala 236.769 . Tsi mi he ty 428. 5'11 Autres 16.021 Total 5. 999.329 Fr ançais 42. 953 C omcriens, 34.239 U. A. M. 557 Britanniques 6 16 Grecs 335 kut'res non-asiatiques 1. 440 Chinois 8,066 Indiens ' 14 -342 -4 u L: r e s as i ati qu es . 2.137 Tp I cral 104. 685 II. Elements de bibliographie utilises dans le present fascicule . Dictionnaires anciens de malgache (Cf. Grandidier, Collection des ouvrages anciens sur Madagascar, Paris 1903) : FLACOURT, Dictionnaire de la langue malgache, 1658 HOUTIMAN, Dictionnaire (sur le Betsimisaraka du nord) (1603) DRUNY, Dictionnaire (sur le Mahafaly).( 1729) BOOTNRY, Liste de termes recueillis en Baie d'Antangi1 et de .S aint-Augustin( 1595- 1601 ) .... -y :' , 74 BIRKELI E., Les vazimba de la cate ouest,de Madagascar (Notes d'ethnologie),, Mém. de l'Ac. Malg,, fasc. XXI, Tananarive, 1936, 69 p. CASTAN J. Exercices Français Sakalava Vezu 21 l'usage des comi!ir.r- as,Paris,' Mission Lazariste, 1906, 36 p. CHAPELLIER Manuscrits portant sur du Betsimisaraka de la région de 1'Ivondro (Tamatave) datant de 1803-1805, publi3s dans Bull. de 1'Ac.Malg. , vol. IV, VII, VI11 et X, 1905-1912 ; ces manuscrits ont paru également dans un volume "Collection des documents de l'Académie ' malgache 'I en 1940 DANDOUA'U A. Dialogues français-T$¡1:1ihety, Bull. de 1"Ac. Malg. , fasc. VIII, Tananarive, 1928, 73 p. DESCHAMPS H. Dialecte Antaisaka, Pi'tot de la Beaujardière, Tanann- rive, 1936, 126 1. DESCHEEMAEKER Vocabulaire des Betsimisaraka Atsimo, Zafindriamana, (Pere) poste d'Ambohimanga n'Ihovana (a la source du Mananjary), 1940 FAUBLÉE J. Récits bara, Paris, 1'947 (vocabulaire intéressant une tribu bara vinda, recueilli de 193451941) GRANDIDIER A. Essai de dictionnaire comparé des langues des peupla- et G. des malgaches en particulier Bara et Mahafaly ; manuscrit d-atant des 'voyages de Grandidier, vers 1900 . HEBERT J.C. 1. Documents recueillis en 1955 auprès d'un sakalava 75 Sandrangoatsy de 65 ans, rCgion de Mitsinjo, du Lac Kinkony) ; 2- Documents recueillis en 1962 d'un chef de can: .I:. Er- bara, de 1'Horambe 3- Les noms d'animaux en malgache, Civilisatiai. malgache,' no 1, Paris, edit. Cujas, 1964, pp. 295-389 :S HOFFMANN B. Manuscrit portant sur des termes Tsimihety et (Mgr. ) Sakalava du nord-ouest, recueillis en 1940 in JENSENIUS O. Dictionnaire bara hova, Bull. de l'Ac. MalK., vol. VII; Tanana.rive, 1908, pp. 163-194.. JULLY A. Manuel des diale.ctes malgaches, Paris 1901, 90 p. (sous la rubrique "sakalava" correspondrait du "Mahafaly"' d'apres les donnes de l'auteur.. ) L'HERMITE R. Lexique des mots usuels ; dialectes Betsimisarah-, (Pere) Antakarana, Sakalava, Sihanaka, Tsimihety Lexique Ctabli par les' PP. David, Besnard, Dijoux, Anglade François, Mgr. J. David, Mgr. A. Tsiz- hoanana multigraphi6, 1952 RIBARD E. Dialectes du sud-ouest de Madagascar (Elements de vocabulaire des dialectes : Vezo, Masikoro, etc. ), recueillis B TulCar de 1919 B 1923, 54 p. VERGUIN J. Deux Systemes de vocabulaire parallele 3 Madz- .. gascar, Word, vol. 13 no 1, Aptril 1957, . ' pp. 153-156 .. Nota : Les autres noms propres cites dans cet article sont ceux d'enquêteurs recents qui n'ont pas encore pnbliC leurs documents.. 76 III. Emplacenients et numérotage des parlers malgaches .- Li O 25 .. 'AIV~EFASY (XII) nom de parler = nom de region = nom de ville I I I f IO 3 78 I v. Voc a bu 1 a ir es I' c h i en" , 'I dent It, I' se1 It Nota : Les termes entre barres obliques sont transcrits phonCtiquement suivant le Systeme de l'International phonétique association (IPA) les autres termes suivant 1'Ccriture officielle malgache. .. CHIEN f androaka : I (Nosy-be) 2 (19C)O Grandidie r II (Nosy-be) 3 (1970 Frontier S. II (Sambirano) 4 (1940 Hoffmann .R. II 7 ( c) (1900 Grand i cl i e r II 's 1970 Z? II (Am.bongo) 9 (a) Hebert J. C. VI 13 (c) 1920) Ribard xv (Nord + pays Tsimihety) '33 1952) L'Herm'ite R. xv (Antsohy, 34 .(a) (1970) Malsch J. P. Port- Bergé jusqu'h Man- , dritsara) xv (Port- Ber gé ). 3 5 (1970) X? -fandroaky : II (Mitsinjo 6 (a) .(1955) Hebert J. C. Lac Kinkony II (Ambongo) 9 (a) ( ? Hebert J. C (2) /%imbua/ : - I I (1901) Jully A. II (Mitsinjo Lac Kinkony) 6 (c) (1955j HelJert. J.C: (3) 79 ,II 7(b) (1900) -randil .er II (Ambongo) 9(c). ( ? ) hebert J. C(2) III (Tuléar-Mo- 12(b) (1968) Koechlin B. rombe) VI (Tuléar) 13(b) (1920) Ribard VI1 14' (1702) Drury 1718) VI I 16 (1901) Jully A. VI11 17(b) (1928) 7ecary R. VIî1 (Ambatobe 19 (1970) Guerin M. IX (.Fort-Dau- phin) 20 ' (1642: Flacourt . 1660) IX 21 ' (1900) Grand i di.er IX 22 (1901) Jully A. X 23 (1936) Deschamps.H. XI (source du 24 (1940- De sch e e in a eker P. Mananjary) 1960) XII 25(a) (1957) Tata A. (Molet I-.) XII (Farafangana) 26 (1901) Jully A. XII1 (Nosy varika) 27(a) (1957- Dez J. 1959) XIV (Baie d'An- 29 (1600) Houtman t ongi 1) xv 31(a) (1913 Dandouau XV (De Befo-d 32 (1940 Hoffmann B. taka 21 Man- dritsara 34(b) (1970 Malsh J.P. o XIX 38 (1900) Grandidier xx 40' (1900) Grandidier XX (Benenti) 4.1 bis (1938- FaLblée J. .1941), XX (Ihosy) *2(a) ( ? ) Hebert J.C. (1) XX (Horombe) 43(b) (1962) Hebert J.C. (3) 80 - /alita/ : --__I ali ka II (Majunga) 5 (1970) Y. ? II (Mitsinjo ' Lac Kinkony) 6(b) (1955 Hebert J. C: (3) II (1900 Grandidier II (Ambongo) ( .? Hebert J. C. (2) III. (Tuléar) (1906 Castan J. III (Tuléar) (1920 Ribard III (Tuléar- Morombe (1968) Koechlin B. VI (1920) Rib ard VI I (1900) Grandidier VI11 . (1928') Decary R. XII (1957) Tata A. (Mo- let L.) XVI (Inieriman- (1970) Hardyman J. T. droso) , XVII (1920) Ribard XX (Ihosy). (?I Hebert J. C. (1) . XX (Horombe) (1962) Hebert J. C. (3) Jiaky (quand adresse au roil : .. II (Mitsinjo, (1955) Hebert J. C. (3) Lac Kinkony) II (Ambongo) 9(e) Hebert J.C. (2) dingo : II (Ambongo) d(d) Hebert J. C. (2) kovahy : XII1 (Nosy v.arika)27(b) (1957- Dez J. 1959) . 81 kivahy : XIV (Tamatave) 30 , (1901) J:~llyA. -kiva : XIV 28 (1900) Grandidier -kira : XVIII 37 ( ? ) Russillon adozo : VI11 (Ambovom- 18 (1950) Briand P, be) toha : XIX (Fianarant- ' soa) 39 (1901) Jully A. .. bu ka hu hu : XXIII (Beosy) 50 ( ? ) Birkely E. DENT -/hi/ : I I (1901) Jully A. I 2 (1900) Grandidier 11. Nosy be) 3 (1970 Frdntier S. II Majunga) 5(a) (1970 -f (?) III Tuléar) ll(a) .(1920 Ribard .
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