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of the long valleys", or a similar modern Malagasy translation of long ravines, which denotes the relatively flat nature of the land in western Madagascar. Another theory is that the word is possibly from the Arabic ''saqaliba'' (which is in turn derived from Late Latin sclavus), meaning slave.

History

The Sakalava are considered to be a mix of Austronesian

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