Malagasy is spoken by 10,199,000 people: 10,152,000 in Madagascar, 39,000 in Mayotte, 8,000 in Reunion.
Reading the Scriptures
in Malagasy
Publishing History
Part of the Bible was published for the first time in 1828.
The New Testament was first published in 1830.
The complete Bible was first published in 1835.
This Page
This shows the first few verses from John's Gospel in the Sibree version, first published in 1909 by British & Foreign Bible Society, London. This page is taken from a Bible published in 1997 by Malagasy Bible Society, Antananarivo.