Vezo dialect

Vezo
Vezo
Native to	Madagascar;
Ethnicity	Vezo
Native speakers	386,000
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Western Indonesian Barito East Barito Southern malagasy Vezo; ; ; ; ; ;
Writing system	Latin script (Malagasy alphabet);
Language codes
ISO 639-1	Vz
ISO 639-3	–
Glottolog	mala1537
Linguasphere	31-LDA-a
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Vezo is a dialect of Malagasy spoken by Vezo in the provinces of Mahajanga and Toliara. It is among southern dialects of Malagasy along with Southern sakalava dialect, Masikoro dialect, Tandroy-Mahafaly dialect,Bara dialect and Tanosy dialect.^[2]

Classification

Vezo dialect belongs to the Austronesian language family. Vezo language is very close to Southern sakalava dialect phonetically.

Vezo is a very popular dialect among the nomadic Vezo tribe and it's the main dialect spoken in the city of Toliara.