The Tsimihety are a Malagasy ethnic group who are found in the north-central region of Madagascar.[2] Their name means "those who never cut their hair", a behavior likely linked to their independence from Sakalava kingdom, located to their west, where cutting hair at the time of mourning was expected.[3][4][5] They are found in mountainous part of the island.[2] They are one of the largest Malagasy ethnic groups and their population estimates range between 700,000 and over 1.2 million.[1][6] This estimation places them as the fourth-largest ethnicity in Madagascar.[7]
Distribution of Tsimihety people (light yellow in north), compared to other Malagasy ethnic groups. Alternate distribution has been reported by Tofanelli et al.[8]
^ abAppiah & Gates 2005, pp. 230–231.
^ abTsimihety, Encyclopædia Britannica
^Fox 1990, pp. 65–66.
^Lambek 2015, pp. 60–61.
^Bradt 2007, p. 29.
^Diagram Group 2013.
^"MADAGASCAR: general data". Populstat.info. Retrieved 15 July 2013.
^Tofanelli, S.; Bertoncini, S.; Castri, L.; et al. (2009). "On the Origins and Admixture of Malagasy: New Evidence from High-Resolution Analyses of Paternal and Maternal Lineages". Molecular Biology and Evolution. 26 (9). Oxford University Press: 2109–2124. doi:10.1093/molbev/msp120. PMID 19535740.
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