Tsou language
E576945
Tsou language is an endangered Austronesian language spoken by the Indigenous Tsou people of central Taiwan.
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Austronesian language
ⓘ
endangered language ⓘ |
| belongsTo | Tsouic branch (often treated as its own primary branch of Formosan) ⓘ |
| country | Republic of China ⓘ |
| ethnicity | Tsou people NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| glottocode | tsou1248 ⓘ |
| glottologName | Tsou NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Cou
ⓘ
Tsouan ⓘ |
| hasCaseMarking | prepositional or particle-based case marking ⓘ |
| hasClauseType | complex clauses with subordination ⓘ |
| hasCommunityMediaUse | limited community radio and cultural programs ⓘ |
| hasDocumentation |
grammars by field linguists
ⓘ
lexicons and dictionaries ⓘ |
| hasMorphologicalFeature |
aspect marking
ⓘ
person marking on verbs ⓘ rich verbal morphology ⓘ voice marking on verbs ⓘ |
| hasNumeralSystem | decimal numeral system ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
contrastive aspiration in stops
ⓘ
limited vowel inventory ⓘ rich consonant inventory ⓘ |
| hasRevitalizationEffort |
community-based language classes
ⓘ
documentation projects by linguists ⓘ |
| hasSpeakerPopulationStatus | severely declining number of fluent speakers ⓘ |
| hasStressPattern | predictable stress placement ⓘ |
| hasSVOAlternativeOrder | yes ⓘ |
| hasTypologicalFeature |
ergative-like alignment patterns
ⓘ
focus alignment system ⓘ verb-initial basic word order ⓘ |
| isEndangeredBecauseOf |
language shift to Mandarin Chinese
ⓘ
language shift to Taiwanese Hokkien ⓘ |
| ISO639-3 | tsu ⓘ |
| isOfficialLanguageOf | none ⓘ |
| isPartOf | Taiwan Indigenous languages NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isRecognizedBy | Council of Indigenous Peoples of Taiwan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isTaughtIn | some local schools in Tsou communities ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Austronesian languages ⓘ |
| languageOf |
Tsou ritual chants
ⓘ
Tsou traditional oral literature ⓘ |
| region |
Chiayi County
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Nantou County NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spokenBy | Tsou people NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Taiwan
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
central Taiwan ⓘ |
| status | endangered ⓘ |
| subfamily | Formosan languages NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| writingSystem |
Latin alphabet
ⓘ
surface form:
Latin script
|
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.