Atayalic languages

E138016

The Atayalic languages are a small subgroup of indigenous Austronesian languages spoken in northern Taiwan, primarily by the Atayal and Seediq peoples.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Atayalic languages canonical 2
Atayalic 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Austronesian languages subgroup
language subgroup
areConsonantRich true
areDocumentedBy field linguists
areEndangered true
areGeneticallyRelatedTo Malayo-Polynesian languages
other Formosan languages
areHeadInitial true
areImportantFor historical linguistics of Taiwan
reconstruction of Proto-Austronesian
areIndigenousTo Taiwan
arePrimarilyOralTradition true
areSpokenByEthnicGroup Atayal
linked to: Atayal people

Seediq
areStudiedIn Austronesian linguistics
areSubjectToLanguageShift true
areTaughtIn some Taiwanese schools
areUsedBy Christian churches in some communities
areVowelRich true
country Taiwan
family Austronesian language family
hasPart Atayal language
Seediq language
haveComplexMorphology true
haveFocusSystem true
haveLanguageCodes included in ISO 639-3
haveLoanwordsFrom Japanese
Mandarin Chinese
haveOfficialSupportFrom Council of Indigenous Peoples (Taiwan)
havePhonemicLength true
haveRevitalizationPrograms true
haveRichVoiceSystem true
ISOClassification Formosan branch of Austronesian
morphologyType agglutinative
primaryTypology verb–initial word order
recognizedAs indigenous languages of Taiwan
region northern Taiwan
spokenBy Atayal people
Seediq people
subclassOf Austronesian languages
Formosan languages
threatenedBy Mandarin Chinese
Taiwanese Hokkien
usedIn oral literature
songs
storytelling
traditional rituals
writingSystem Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Formosan languages majorSubgroupIncludes Atayalic languages
Seediq language subfamily Atayalic languages
Truku language subfamily Atayalic
linked to: Atayalic languages