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How Did a Language From Borneo Reach the Coast of Africa? - The Borneo Connection and the Founding of Madagascar | Sleepy Facts About History
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If you speak Malagasy, the language of Madagascar, and you find yourself in a village along the Barito River in southeast Borneo, something peculiar happens. You will hear words you recognize. Sounds separated by roughly seven thousand kilometers of ocean, yet unmistakably related. This episode explores one of the most remarkable facts in the study of human movement: how a language born in the islands of Southeast Asia came to anchor a society off the coast of Africa.
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