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The settlement of Madagascar: what dialects and languages can tell
Maurizio Serva
The dialects of Madagascar belong to the Greater Barito East group of the Austronesian family and it is widely accepted that the Island was colonized by Indonesian sailors after a…
cs.CL2011★ 4 cited
Phylogeny and geometry of languages from normalized Levenshtein distance
Maurizio Serva
The idea that the distance among pairs of languages can be evaluated from lexical differences seems to have its roots in the work of the French explorer Dumont D'Urville. He collec…
cs.CL2011
Malagasy Dialects and the Peopling of Madagascar
M. Serva, F. Petroni, D. Volchenkov +1
The origin of Malagasy DNA is half African and half Indonesian, nevertheless the Malagasy language, spoken by the entire population, belongs to the Austronesian family. The languag…