Back Sakalava AF شعب ساكالافا ARZ Сакалава BE Sakalava Catalan Sakalavové Czech Sakalava German Sakalava Spanish Sakalava French Sakalava Croatian Sakalava ID
 Sakalava people near Morondava | |
| Total population | |
|---|---|
| 2,079,000[1] | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| Madagascar | |
| Languages | |
| Sakalava Malagasy 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 found on the western and northwest region of the island, in a band along the coast. The Sakalava are one of the smallest ethnic groups, constituting about 6.2 percent of the total population,[4] that is about 2,079,000 in 2018.[5] Their name means "people of the long valleys." They occupy the western edge of the island from Toliara in the south to the Sambirano River in the north.
- ^ "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