Antaisaka people
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Antaisaka people
Antaisaka are an ethnic group of Madagascar living on the south-eastern coast.[1] The Antaisaka speak a dialect of the Malagasy language, which is a branch of the Malayo-polynesian language group derived from the Barito languages, spoken in southern Borneo.
Their name means "people of the Sakalava," an ethnic group inhabiting the western coastal plains of Madagascar. They migrated to their current location from the west and the purported forefather of Antaisaka, Andriamandresy, is said to have been a Sakalava.
In the Antaisaka culture, it is taboo for men to harvest rice, which is a women's duty. Houses have two doors, one of which is only used to carry corpses out of the houses.
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- ^ Bradt, Hillary; Austin, Daniel (2007). Madagascar (9th ed.). Guilford, CT: The Globe Pequot Press Inc.. pp. 113–115. ISBN 1-84162-197-8. http://books.google.com/books?id=vyNVb2q0RisC&pg=PA23&dq=madagascar+ethnic+group&hl=en&ei=giDzTKbNKYLQsAOO15HLCw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=7&ved=0CEkQ6AEwBg#v=onepage&q=madagascar%20ethnic%20group&f=false.
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