Ph. D. wrote:
> Hmmm. I have a textbook of Malagasy, and I've worked
> through about half of it. I'm not a linguist, but it doesn't seem
> to be a trigger language to me, at least not the way the
> Philippino languages work.
Could you post a few examples sentences? I'll see what my dictionary says
(I think there's a little summary grammar in the front). I last looked at
the grammar way back when.
>The most interesting feature
> is that the headword must be the subject in a relative clause,
> so there are ways to mark the verb for active, passive, and
> oblique.
>
That's true of Ml/Indonesian too.