Saisiyat language

E138019

The Saisiyat language is an indigenous Austronesian language spoken by the Saisiyat people of northwestern Taiwan.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Austronesian language
Formosan language
continent Asia
country Republic of China
hasAlternativeName Saisett
Saisiyat
surface form: Saisiat

Saisiyat
hasBasicWordOrder VOS
VSO
verb–initial
hasDialect Taai dialect
Taai dialect
surface form: Tungho dialect
hasEthnicGroup Saisiyat people
hasGlottocode sais1237
hasLinguisticClassification Malayo-Polynesian branch
hasLinguisticFeature focus alignment system
rich derivational morphology
voice-marking on verbs
hasMorphologicalType agglutinative
hasNeighboringLanguage Atayal language
Hakka
surface form: Hakka Chinese

Mandarin Chinese
Taiwanese Hokkien
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
rich consonant inventory
hasSpeakerCommunity Saisiyat villages in Hsinchu County
Saisiyat villages in Miaoli County
hasStatus threatened
vulnerable
hasWritingSystem Latin script
isEndangered true
isMinorityLanguageIn Taiwan, Province of China
surface form: Taiwan
ISO639-3Code xsy
isRecognizedBy Council of Indigenous Peoples (Taiwan) (policy role)
surface form: Council of Indigenous Peoples of Taiwan
isSubjectTo languageShiftToHakka
languageShiftToMandarinChinese
languageShiftToTaiwaneseHokkien
languageFamily Austronesian languages
region Hsinchu County
Miaoli County
spokenBy Saisiyat people
spokenIn Taiwan, Province of China
surface form: Taiwan

northwestern Taiwan
subfamily Formosan languages
surface form: Northwest Formosan languages
usedIn traditional rituals of the Saisiyat people

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Formosan languages majorSubgroupIncludes Saisiyat language