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TIL the linguistically closest relative to Malagasy, spoken in Madagascar, is Ma'anyan, spoked on the island of Borneo in Indonesia. It has been suggested the early Malagasy migrants moved away from Borneo in the 7th century AD, based on linguistic markets

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