kala
mavo (ariary efatra: 20 fmg)
rakoto fra: 1000 fmg (roanjato)
baby: dimy arivo ariary (25,000 fmg)
sarety: 1000 fmg (roanjato)
FAMILIAR NAMES OF THE MALAGASY MONEY
| Malagasy francs | 20 fmg | 50 fmg | 100 fmg | 150fmg | 1000 fmg | 50, 000 fmg |
| Familiar name | mavo | zaza | Saria (sary) /sarety | Jodasy= | Rakoto fra | maizina |
| Other names |
|
| Kala iray | Sary +baby (on the back) zaza | Lamy, lama, ariary roa |
|
| Academic name | Ariary efatra (ariefatra) | Ariary folo (arifolo) | roapolo | telopolo | roanjato | Iray alina |
* Màvo= 20 fmg : ariary efatra, it is called yellow because it is made of brass.
* zaza: 50 fmg: there is a little baby on the back of her mother
* sary= 100 fmg ( sary (accent on y) = saria =sariety= charrue= a cart)= Sarety=roapolo ariary=kala iray
* sary baby zaza=150 fmg= telopolo ariary= Jodasy=sary = saria= 100 fmg and zaza 50 fmg
* Rakoto frah (there is a man with a malagasy sodina: flute) : 1000 fmg = lamy ( de l'ami in French), lama, ariary roa ( G, Sambo, p180)
* Maizina=50 000fmg: (word game with alina 10 000 ariary= alina meaing night= when it is night it is dark)
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THE CHANGE
Changes are called "madinika" by apocope of "majinika", Màjy, màjika, paika, kajim, pasahana.
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BwDbOGaZ6bSPaWw5X3liVFl5aVk/edit
See here the coins in use: http://www.banque-centrale.mg/index.php?id=m3_4
FAMILIAR NAMES
Money=Magôly, Baibo, bama, chiffres, devika, dôlaka (from dollar), drala, fananana, filatro, maneno (which makes noise in the pocket), mbairo, paitra, sola (there is a bald man on teh banknote), sôsy (from the French word sauce),
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BwDbOGaZ6bSPSlFEVzRYbk1IRnM/edit
I DON'T HAVE MONEY= TSISY VOLA
Adj =Banky, bôritra, faity, fotsy, kinkiny, maina, maiama, may, pitra, tapaka, rafahely, vôtany, pify, Amiraly, enjehiny
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BwDbOGaZ6bSPaHR0VnhkM081Slk/edit
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* Malagasy people don't always say the ten: dimy ambiroapolo, for example is said : dimy amby roa, telo amby efapolo: telo amby efatra, fito amby valopolo: dimy amby valo...
* since there are so many changes of banknotes, for example rakoto frah, was 1000 fmg, it also appplies to the new banknote, although it has no more the same image...
* see in the book: mena, aloalo, omby, lolo, maky...
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Bibliography: online google book
all is taken from Clément SAMBO and Noël-Jacques GUEUNIER, Langages non conventionnels à Madagascar: argot des jeunes et proverbes, Paris: Karthala, 2001.
