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  1. Inhabitant of or native to Madagascar.
  2. Primarily rice farmers, the Malagasy make use
  3. of both irrigated fields and swidden
  4. (temporary plot) methods. The language
  5. belongs to the Austronesian family and,
  6. despite Madagascar's proximity to Africa,
  7. contains only a small number of Bantu and
  8. Arabic loan words.
  9.