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[quote author=PAGAN 9JA]not ALL Malagsy look Asian. It is only the Highland tribespeople (Merina, Batiseleo. etc./) who have Asian features and who are in fact Polynesians from Borneo. The reason they have dark skin is due to climatic change and other such external factors. but you will notcie that they are just like darkly tanned Asians.[/quote]I do not agree with the above. 1500 years of settlement is not enough time to grossly alter the skin compostion of the native indonesians and besides if they carry a 50 percent DNA influence from EAst Africans that most likely would explains the borrowed features of the Africans

[quote author=PAGAN 9JA]Highlanders (only pure tribespeople) = Asian Malays

Coastals (only pure tribespeople ) = Bantu Africans[/quote]There is a high degree of african and asian admixtures in the coastal areas 50:50 spread, compared to the highlanders however this barrier is only a function of "location" as opposed to segregation.

All malagasy speak the asian derived language as it supplanted any African languages

Malagasy are not POLYNESIAN in origin but share similar vocabulary with Asians stretching all the way to the polynesian islands,. They are likely more "INDONESIAN"

POLYNESIANS are individuals who now reside in islands in the far pacific such as tonga, hawaii and the likes

naijarican: My cousin is black and filipino and she bares a strong resemblance to these people.

Of course she would, its roughly the same blend

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