Thao (/θaʊ/thow; Thao: Thau a lalawa), also known as Sao,[2] is the nearly extinct language of the Thao people,[3] an indigenous people of Taiwan from the Sun Moon Lake region in central Taiwan. It is a Formosan language of the Austronesian family;[4] Barawbaw and Shtafari are dialects.[citation needed]
^ abThao at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
^Zui (2021-11-20). "Languages of Taiwan — Thao (Thau a lalawa, Sao)". The Language Closet. Retrieved 2023-10-28.
^"Did you know Thao is critically endangered?". Endangered Languages. Retrieved 2023-10-28.
^Chang, M Laura (December 1998). "Thao Reduplication". Oceanic Linguistics. 37 (2): 277–297. doi:10.2307/3623411.
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An endangered language is a language that it is at risk of falling out of use, generally because it has few surviving speakers. If it loses all of its...
An endangered language is a language that is at risk of falling out of use, generally because it has few surviving speakers. If it loses all of its native...
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alienated from his family and angry at the world, whose young neighbor, Thao Vang Lor, is pressured by his cousin into stealing Walt's prized Ford Torino...
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alienated from his family and angry at the world. Walt's young neighbor, Thao Vang Lor, is pressured by his cousin into trying to steal Walt's prized 1972...