Back Sakalava Afrikaans شعب ساكالافا ARZ Сакалава Byelorussian Sakalava Catalan Sakalavové Czech Sakalava German Sakalava Spanish Sakalava French Mutanen Sakalava Hausa Sakalava Croatian
 Sakalava people near Morondava | |
| Total population | |
|---|---|
| 2,079,000[1] | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| Madagascar | |
| Languages | |
| Southern Sakalava, Northern Sakalava and French | |
| Religion | |
| Christianity (Catholicism, commoners), Fomba Gasy (traditional religion), Islam (royalty)[2] | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Other Malagasy groups, Bantu peoples, Austronesian peoples |
The Sakalava are an ethnic group of Madagascar.[3] They are primarily found on the western edge of Madagascar from Toliara in the south to the Sambirano River in the north. The Sakalava constitute about 6.2 percent of the total population,[4] or about 2,079,000 in 2018.[5] Their name means "people of the long valleys."
- ^ "Sakalava in Madagascar".
- ^ Lesley A. Sharp (1994). The Possessed and the Dispossessed: Spirits, Identity, and Power in a Madagascar Migrant Town. University of California Press. pp. 38, 61–62. ISBN 978-0-520-91845-0.
- ^ Bradt & Austin 2007.
- ^ Benoit Thierry; Andrianiainasoa Rakotondratsima; et al. (2010). Nourishing the Land, Nourishing the People: Madagascar. CABI, Oxfordshire. pp. 28, 31. ISBN 978-1-84593-739-3.
- ^ Joshuaproject