Dahl, O. C.
Correspondence between Hardyman and O. C. Dahl and notes on Malagasy orthography.
| Order number: |
PP MS 63, Hardyman, Box 12 |
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| Date(s) of creation: |
1968 - 1969 |
| Level: |
File |
| Format: | Archive |
| Order number: |
PP MS 63, Hardyman, Box 12 |
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| Summary: |
Correspondence between Hardyman and O. C. Dahl and notes on Malagasy orthography. |
| Admin history: | Linguists consider Madagascar to be unique in that, unlike 99.9% of the world's languages, Malagasy has a very rare word order: verb-object-subject. Most languages are based on a subject-object-verb or subject-verb-object order. The origins of the Malagasy language were relatively unknown until Otto Christian Dahl demonstrated in 1951 that it is derived from an Indonesian tongue. [Source: Madagascar Library - Personal Collection of Daniel Austin, http://www.madagascar-library.com/about3.html, 13/3/2013] |
| Access status: |
Open |
| File number: |
47 |
| Format: | Archive |