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The second letter of the Malagasy Alphabet. It is sounded as b in English. After the elision of one of the weak syllables, -NA, -KA, and -TRA, in a word which is joined to a second beginning with v, b always takes the place of v; thus -NA or -NY and b coming together, the -NA becomes m, and the b becomes v, as TANIM-BARY [TANY and VARY]; OLOMBERY [OLONA and VERY]; when a word ending in -KA or -TRA is united to another beginning with v, the -KA or -TRA is rejected and the v becomes b, as TONGO-BARIKA [TONGOTRA and VARIKA], SATRO-BEHI-VAVY [SATROKA and VEHIVAVY].When the verbal prefix MAN- is joined to a word beginning with b, the b is sometimes elided, and the n become m as MAMABO [MAN- and BABO]; or the n is changed to m, while the b is retained, as MAMBETA [MAN- and BETA] [Richardson 1885]
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