Ina?

Malagasy is very much a lesser known language, so it's always a right to brag if you know how to speak it. Unfortunately for you, I can't hold a conversation, but lucky for you, I know enough words that you can incorporate a couple into your everyday English speak. Same way French/English speakers sometimes slip into Franglais and Spanish/English speakers slip into Spanglish, you can impress your friends with your newly learned Malglish!

Manahoana!	Hello
Ina vaovao?	What's new? (literally, what's news?)
adaladala	silly
Malouto	Dirty
trano	house
mamay	hot
Dan anlova...	Go get...
Tsemise...	There aren't (any)...
Ina zahn?	What's that?
oumby	cow
Be	Big
Dadabe	Grandfather (literally, big dad)
Bebe	Grandmother (literally, big big)
Zaza	Baby
Kely	Little
Vazaha	Stranger
Mahenana	Eat
Taka	Like (as in, "like a [something]")
Matory	Sleep
basvava	Talkative/one who doesn't shut up
alefa	Go
Tsnovy	(to) do
Ayz zahn?	Where's that?
soutrou	Spoon
Velum!	Bye!
Velum be!	So long!

*Notes*:
-Lots of end letters are either slightly pronounced or not pronounced at all. For example, 'vazaha' is prounounced 'Vah-zah', and the final 'ha' isn't heard.
-As a rule of thumb, final Y's are not pronounced.
-I tried to type words accurately, but not all spellings are accurate. They are typed by me based on how they sound and what little knowledge I know of the structure of words.
-If you know official phonetic sounds (ex: 'e' is prounounced 'eh', 'i' is pronounced 'ee' as in 'key'), it will help you to pronounce these words accurately.

Hey vazaha, your face is so adaladala that my bebe wanted to know if your owner takes you out of the trano dressed taka zahn. Zing!

Soon, you can make cool Malglish insults, too! :-D

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