Yami language

E153293

The Yami language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Tao (Yami) people of Orchid Island in Taiwan, known for preserving many archaic features within the Batanic subgroup.

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All labels observed (3)

Label Occurrences
Yami language canonical 5
Tao (Yami) language 1
Yami (Tao) language 1

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Austronesian language
Batanic language
natural language
alternativeName Ponso no Tao
surface form: Ciriciring no Tao

Yami language
surface form: Tao (Yami) language

Thao language
surface form: Tao language
associatedEthnicity Tao people
closelyRelatedTo Itbayat language
Ivatan language
country Republic of China
endangermentStatus vulnerable
glottologName Yami (Tao)
surface form: Yami
hasAncestor Proto-Austronesian language
Batanic languages
surface form: Proto-Batanic language

Proto-Malayo-Polynesian language
hasAutonym Ciring no Tao
hasGlottocode yami1235
hasISO639-3Code tao
hasLexicalBorrowingFrom Japanese language
Mandarin Chinese
Philippine languages
hasMorphologicalFeature Austronesian voice system (reduced compared to Proto-Austronesian)
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length (in some analyses)
rich consonant inventory including prenasalized stops
hasResearchField Austronesian linguistics
hasResearchInterest historical reconstruction of Batanic subgroup
language contact in Taiwan-Philippines area
hasRevitalizationEffort community-based language preservation programs on Orchid Island
hasSyntacticFeature verb-initial basic word order
isOfficialLanguageOf none
isTaughtIn some local schools on Orchid Island
languageFamily Austronesian languages
preservesFeature archaic Batanic phonology
archaic Batanic vocabulary
conservative Austronesian morphology
region eastern Taiwan
surface form: Southeast Taiwan
spokenBy Tao people
Yami people
spokenIn Orchid Island
Taiwan, Province of China
surface form: Taiwan
spokenOn Lanyu
surface form: Lanyu (Orchid Island)
subgroupOf Batanic subgroup
Malayo-Polynesian languages
usedAlongside Mandarin Chinese
Taiwanese Hokkien
usedFor daily communication within Tao communities
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

Referenced by (7)

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

Batanic languages hasMember Yami language
Itbayaten closelyRelatedTo Yami language
Yami people language Yami language
Yami language alternativeName Yami language
this entity surface form: Tao (Yami) language
Babuyan language relatedTo Yami language
this entity surface form: Yami (Tao) language
Itbayat language closelyRelatedTo Yami language