Dahl links Malagasy to Ma'anyan of southeastern Borneo

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1. Story
2. Otto Christian Dahl's Malgache et Maanjan established, on shared sound correspondences and vocabulary, that the closest known relative of Malagasy is a Barito language of southeastern Borneo, some six thousand kilometres away across the Indian Ocean. The result demonstrated that Madagascar's founding population came from island Southeast Asia rather than from the African mainland a few hundred kilometres to the west — a conclusion reached from language before archaeology or genetics could reach it.
3. Knowledge
4. Austronesian
5. Malagasy
6. The Austronesian expansion
7. Dahl links Malagasy to Ma'anyan of southeastern Borneo
8. Connections
9. Malagasy
10. Austronesian
11. The Austronesian expansion
12. The Austronesian expansion
13. Austronesian
14. Dahl links Malagasy to Ma'anyan of southeastern Borneo
15. Austronesian speakers settle Madagascar
16. Taiwan
17. Trans-New Guinea
18. Malagasy
19. The Austronesian expansion
20. Dahl links Malagasy to Ma'anyan of southeastern Borneo
21. Blust's Austronesian subgrouping places the deepest divisions in Taiwan
22. A language tree is tested against a settlement chronology
23. Austronesian speakers move out of Taiwan
24. Lapita voyagers enter Remote Oceania
25. Malagasy
26. Austronesian
27. Taiwan
28. Dahl links Malagasy to Ma'anyan of southeastern Borneo
29. Blust's Austronesian subgrouping places the deepest divisions in Taiwan
30. A language tree is tested against a settlement chronology
31. Austronesian speakers move out of Taiwan
32. Lapita voyagers enter Remote Oceania
33. Austronesian speakers settle Madagascar
34. Evidence
35. Supports the identification of Ma'anyan, a Barito language of southeastern Borneo, as the closest known relative of Malagasy. V55 verification basis: this session had no access to any source — WebFetch was egress-blocked for every host attempted and the WebSearch budget was exhausted before authoring — so the cited work was not retrieved, and no page, volume or figure quoted from it was re-checked. No page is cited and no correspondence set is quoted; the settlement date of Madagascar is not supported by this record and is stated as contested wherever it appears.