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| Atayal | ||
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| Spoken in: | north Taiwan | |
| Total speakers: | <84,330 | |
| Language family: | Austronesian Formosan Atayalic Atayal |
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| Writing system: | Latin alphabet | |
| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | map | |
| ISO 639-3: | tay | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. | ||
This article is about the Atayal language. For the Atayal people , see Atayal people.
The Atayal language is spoken by the Atayal people of Taiwan. Squliq and C’uli’ (which includes the well-documented Mayrinax) are two major dialects.
There is a dictionary of the language and a grammar. In 2002 a Bible text was published. Atayal is written in the Latin alphabet.
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Phonology
Vowels
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| High | i iː | u uː | |
| Mid | e | ə | o |
| Low | a |
Consonants
| Bilabial | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stop | p | t | k | q | ʔ | |||
| Affricate | ts | |||||||
| Fricative | Voiceless | s | x | |||||
| Voiced | β | ʒ | ɣ | ɦ | ||||
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||||
| Lateral | l | |||||||
| Flap | ɾ | |||||||
| Semivowel | w | j | ||||||
References
Reference grammars
- Huang, Lillian (2000). "泰雅語參考語法" [Atayal language reference grammar]. Taipei: Yuanliou. Describes Mayrinax Atayal.
- Rau, D. V. (1992). "A grammar of Atayal". Cornell University dissertation. Describes Squliq Atayal.
- Valle, G. D. (1963). Handbook of Atayal, as it is spoken in Wufeng (Hsinchu hsien). Taichung: Kuangchi Press
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