A unified English term that best reflect the people, the culture, and other things from Madagascar: ’Malagasy’ instead of ’Madagascan’ Ny Riavo G. Voarintsoa, Andriamiranto Raveloson, Rondrotiana Barimalala, Onja Razafindratsima To cite this version: Ny Riavo G. Voarintsoa, Andriamiranto Raveloson, Rondrotiana Barimalala, Onja Razafindratsima. A unified English term that best reflect the people, the culture, and other things from Madagascar: ’Malagasy’ instead of ’Madagascan’. 2018. hal-01956595 HAL Id: hal-01956595 https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01956595 Preprint submitted on 16 Dec 2018 HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci- destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents entific research documents, whether they are pub- scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, lished or not. The documents may come from émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de teaching and research institutions in France or recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires abroad, or from public or private research centers. publics ou privés. A unified English term that best reflect the people, the culture, and other things from Madagascar: ‘Malagasy’ instead of ‘Madagascan’ Ny Riavo G. Voarintsoa1,*, Andriamiranto Raveloson 2, Rondrotiana Barimalala 3, and Onja H. Razafindratsima 4 1 Institute of Earth Sciences, The Hebrew University in Jerusalem, A. Safra Campus, 91904, Jerusalem, Israel 2 School of Geosciences, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa 3 Department of Oceanography, University of Cape Town, South Africa 4 Department of Biology, College of Charleston, 66 George St. Charleston, SC, 29424, USA *Correspondence to: Ny Riavo Voarintsoa (
[email protected]) Abstract Two words, Malagasy and Madagascan, have emerged in the literature as an English term to refer to the people, the culture, and other animate and inanimate objects from Madagascar, the choice of which has left room for confusions for users.