Atayal
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Austronesian language spoken in Taiwan
Key facts
- Region
- Northern Taiwan
- Ethnicity
- Atayal
- Native speakers
- 86,000 (2008)
- Language family
- Austronesian Atayalic Atayal
- Dialects
- Matuʼuwal Skikun Squliq Plngawan Klesan Sʼuli Matuʼaw
- Writing system
- Latin ( Atayal alphabet )
- Iso 639 3
- tay
- Glottolog
- atay1247
- Linguasphere
- 30-AAA
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- modern language
- Subclass of
- Atayalic
- Country
- Taiwan
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- indigenous to
- Hsinchu City
- writing system
- Latin script
- topic's main category
- Category:Atayal language
- native label
- Atayal
- number of speakers, writers, or signers
- 80000
- Wikimedia language code
- tay
- Commons category
- Atayal language
- P10369
- Tornareccio
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Encyclopedic overview
The Atayal language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Atayal people of Taiwan. Squliq and Cʼuliʼ (Tsʼoleʼ) are two major dialects. Matuʼuwal and Paʼkualiʼ, two subdialects of Cʼuliʼ, are unique among Atayal dialects in having male and female register distinctions in their vocabulary.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Atayal” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.