Basay language

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The Basay language is an extinct Austronesian language once spoken by indigenous peoples in northern Taiwan.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Austronesian language
extinct language
alternativeName Ketagalan language
Qauqaut-Basay
belongsTo Malayo-Polynesian languages
surface form: Malayo-Polynesian branch of Austronesian
causeOfLanguageShift shift to Japanese (during Japanese rule)
shift to Mandarin Chinese
shift to Taiwanese Hokkien
closelyRelatedTo Amis language
Kavalan language
continent Asia
country Taiwan, Province of China
surface form: Taiwan
culturalAssociation northern plains indigenous groups of Taiwan
documentedIn wordlists by early missionaries and linguists
endangeredStatusBeforeExtinction severely endangered
extinction 20th century
Glottocode basa1280
GlottologName Basay
hasDocumentationStatus poorly documented
hasEthnologueEntry yes
hasLinguisticFeature Austronesian alignment
focus system
rich verbal morphology
hasMorphosyntacticAlignment Austronesian voice system
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive stops and nasals
vowel length distinctions (reported)
hasReconstruction partially reconstructed from field notes
hasSpeakerPopulation no known native speakers remaining
hasTypologicalProfile head-initial word order (Austronesian-type)
historicalCommunity Basay people
Ketagalan people
Qauqaut people
ISO639-3 byq
isPartOf cultural heritage of indigenous peoples of Taiwan
languageFamily Austronesian languages
linguisticArea Formosan languages of northern Taiwan
region northern Taiwan
surface form: Taipei Basin

northeastern Taiwan coast
researchField Austronesian studies
historical linguistics
spokenBy indigenous peoples of Taiwan
spokenIn northern Taiwan
status extinct
subfamily Formosan languages
subgroup Formosan languages
surface form: East Formosan languages
usedUntil early 1900s (approximate)
writingSystem Latin script (for linguistic transcription)

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