Benutzer:Shi Annan/Beosi
Die Beosi sind eine Volksgruppe von Jägern und Sammlern im zentralen Hochland von Madagaskar. Die Volksgruppe ist verschieden von den Mikea, den Jäger-Sammlern und Gartenbauern des Tieflands. Die Angehörigen der Volksgruppe sind meist von kleiner Statur.
Sprache
[Bearbeiten | Quelltext bearbeiten]The Boesi speak a dialect of the Malagasy language, which originated in southern Borneo. Speculation that there may be remnants of a Vazimba language in Beosi speech was investigated by Blench & Walsh (2009). Beosi speech was found to have a relatively high proportion of vocabulary that cannot be identified with words in other varieties of Malagasy, substantially more than the Mikea dialect, and is more likely than Mikea to retain a Vazimba substrate, if such a thing even exists. The possibility is complicated by the extensive use of evasive language and cant by the Beosi, which is designed to hinder understanding by outsiders.[1]
Einzelnachweise
[Bearbeiten | Quelltext bearbeiten]- ↑ Blench & Walsh, 2009 draft ms, "The vocabularies of Vazimba and Beosi: do they represent the languages of the pre-Austronesian populations of Madagascar?".
Weblinks
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