But do remember that the adjective for Madagascar has the same sound only it is spelled with the letter -y, Malagasy.

但请记住，Madagascar（马达）的形容词有相同的发音，当它的后缀为-y的时候，即Malagasy。

That insight led to collaboration with Patricia Wright, a primatologist at the State University of New York, Stony Brook, who helped encourage the Malagasy government to found Ranomafana, and who has been working there for decades.

这种洞察力促成了与纽约州立大学石溪分校灵长类动物学家帕特里夏·赖特的合作，后者帮助鼓励马达府成立了拉诺马法纳，并在那里工作了数十年。

First, it has been recognised for centuries that the Malagasy language, though distinct, borrows a lot of words from Javanese, Malay and the tongues of Borneo and Sulawesi.

首先，存在了个世纪的一种看法认为，该岛使用的马尔什语，虽然独特，但很多的词汇爪哇语、马语和一部分口语婆罗洲及苏拉威西岛当地方言。

And third, genetic evidence has linked the modern Malagasy with people living in eastern Indonesia as well as farther off in Melanesia and Oceania.

再次，基因学证据已证明现代的马达人与东印尼人以及相距更遥远的美拉尼西亚人和生活在大洋洲的人都有联系的。

He drew this conclusion, just published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society, by sampling the DNA of 266 Malagasy people and comparing it with existing samples from 2,745 Indonesians.

Cox博士最近在学术期刊《皇家学会进展》（Proceedings of the Royal Society ）发表的文章中对266名马达人进行DNA抽样，同现有的2745名印尼人的DNA样品进行了比对，得出了以上结论。

Dr Cox and his colleagues were therefore able to make a statistical comparison of Indonesian and Malagasy mitochondrial genomes knowing that any changes which had occurred since they separated would be the result of rare mutations.

Cox博士和他的同事们因此能进行印尼人和马达人线粒体基因组的数据比对，从而推断出原本相同的线粒体DNA天各一方后发生的任何遗传变化都源于一些罕见的基因突变。

Most likely, then, the first Malagasy were accidental castaways, news of whose adventure never made it back home.

那么，首批马达人也很可能因船只失事而意外漂流到该岛的，而这批人后也没办法回到家乡。

Aerial and ground surveys are underway in Madagascar to map the locations of the Malagasy migratory locust swarms.

马达目前正在进行空中和地面调查，以对这里迁移的蝗虫制作地图。