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The writing systems of the Formosan languages are Latin-based alphabets. Currently, 16 languages (45 dialects) have been regulated. The alphabet was made official in 2005.[1]

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Writing systems of Formosan languages

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The writing systems of the Formosan languages are Latin-based alphabets. Currently, 16 languages (45 dialects) have been regulated. The alphabet was made...

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Formosan languages

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The Formosan languages are a geographic grouping comprising the languages of the indigenous peoples of Taiwan, all of which are Austronesian. They do...

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Languages of Taiwan

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languages of Taiwan consist of several varieties of languages under the families of Austronesian languages and Sino-Tibetan languages. The Formosan languages...

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Constructed writing system

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constructed languages, although several of them are used in linguistic experimentation or for other more practical ends in existing languages. Prominent...

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Austronesian languages

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languages spoken outside of Taiwan, viz. Malayo-Polynesian. The relationships of the Formosan languages to each other and the internal structure of Malayo-Polynesian...

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Languages of China

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languages in China. The predominant language is Standard Chinese, which is based on Beijingese, but there are hundreds of related Chinese languages,...

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Paiwan language

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a native language of Taiwan, spoken by the Paiwan, a Taiwanese indigenous people. Paiwan is a Formosan language of the Austronesian language family. It...

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Rukai language

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voice system among the Formosan languages. Paul Jen-kuei Li considers Rukai to be the first language to have split from the Proto-Austronesian language. Below...

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Taiwanese indigenous peoples

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as the Formosan languages – at least ten are now extinct, five are moribund and several are to some degree endangered. These languages are of unique historical...

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Katakana

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in Chinese. There were similar systems for other languages in Taiwan as well, including Hakka and Formosan languages. Unlike Japanese or Ainu, Taiwanese...

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Amis language

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Formosan language of the Amis (or Ami), an indigenous people living along the east coast of Taiwan. Currently the largest of the Formosan languages,...

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List of creators of writing systems

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alphabetical list of any individuals, legendary or real, who are purported by traditions to have invented alphabets or other writing systems, whether this...

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Transliteration of Chinese

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or bopomofo. There were similar systems for other languages in Taiwan as well, including Hakka and Formosan languages. The Phags-pa script was an alphabet...

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George Psalmanazar

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houses. Psalmanazar's book also described the Formosan language, an early example of a constructed language. His efforts in this regard were so convincing...

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Tagalog language

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Pangasinan, and more distantly to other Austronesian languages, such as the Formosan languages of Taiwan, Indonesian, Malay, Hawaiian, Māori, Malagasy...

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Indonesian language

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by various regional languages such as Javanese, Sundanese, Minangkabau, Balinese, Banjarese, Buginese, etc. and foreign languages such as Arabic, Dutch...

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Bunun language

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Bunun language (Chinese: 布農語) is spoken by the Bunun people of Taiwan. It is one of the Formosan languages, a geographic group of Austronesian languages, and...

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Malay language

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inter-ethnic communications. Malay is a member of the Austronesian family of languages, which includes languages from Southeast Asia and the Pacific Ocean...

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Indigenous language

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national languages but they can be; for example, Aymara is both an indigenous language and an official language of Bolivia. Also, national languages are not...

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Gemination

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Austronesian languages in the Philippines, Micronesia, and Sulawesi are known to have geminate consonants. The Formosan language Kavalan makes use of gemination...

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Min Chinese

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group of Sinitic languages with about 70 million native speakers. These languages are spoken in Fujian province as well as by the descendants of Min-speaking...

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Standard Chinese

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introduced two laws explicitly recognizing the indigenous Formosan languages and Hakka as "Languages of the nation" (國家語言) alongside Standard Chinese. Since...

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Lingua franca

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franca of China and Taiwan, which are home to many mutually unintelligible varieties of Chinese and, in the case of Taiwan, indigenous Formosan languages. Among...

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Official language

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national language, which is defined as a "natural language used by an original people group of Taiwan", which also includes Formosan languages, the Taiwanese...

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Austronesian peoples

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people may have spoken Northeast Formosan languages. Thus, Blench believes that there is in fact no "apical" ancestor of Austronesian in the sense that...

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Atayal language

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of Mayrinax Atayal (Huang 2000a). Orthographic conventions are added in ⟨angle brackets⟩. Most of these sounds are also encountered in other Formosan...

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Ilocano language

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Ethnologue Languages of the World. Retrieved from:http://www.ethnologue.com/language/ebk Orejas, Tonette. "Protect all PH writing systems, heritage advocates...

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Polynesian languages

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Polynesian languages form a genealogical group of languages, itself part of the Oceanic branch of the Austronesian family. There are 38 Polynesian languages, representing...

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Chinese language romanization in Taiwan

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are many romanization systems used in Taiwan (officially the Republic of China). The first Chinese language romanization system in Taiwan, Pe̍h-ōe-jī...

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