How to pronounce “malagasy” in English

Well so I got into this in the year 2000, or actually about a year before that, when a colleague of mine, Steve Goodman,was working with a Malagasy graduate student, , who had been collecting mouse lemurs in Western Madagascar, and was convinced that he was seeing species diversity.Because he was looking very carefully at their morphology, and what they were doing in nature, and so on.