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Saisiyat language information


Saisiyat
SaiSiyat
Native toTaiwan
Ethnicity7,900
Native speakers
4,750 (2002)[1]
Language family
Austronesian
  • Northwest Formosan
    • Saisiyat
Dialects
  • Taai
  • Tungho
Language codes
ISO 639-3xsy
Glottologsais1237
ELPSaisiyat
Saisiyat, Pazeh, and Kulon (pink, northwest). Some Chinese-language sources designate the white area in the northwest as a Kulon area, as opposed to the small pink circle on this map.[2]

Saisiyat (sometimes spelled Saisiat) is the language of the Saisiyat, a Taiwanese indigenous people. It is a Formosan language of the Austronesian family. It has approximately 4,750 speakers.

  1. ^ Saisiyat at Ethnologue (19th ed., 2016) Closed access icon
  2. ^ "Táiwān yuánzhùmín píngpǔ zúqún bǎinián fēnlèi shǐ xìliè dìtú" 臺灣原住民平埔族群百年分類史系列地圖 [A History of the Classification of Plains Taiwanese Tribes Over the Past Century]. blog.xuite.net (in Chinese). 2009-08-06. Retrieved 2017-03-04.

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