Saaroa or Lhaʼalua is a Southern Tsouic language spoken by the Saaroa (Hla'alua) people, an indigenous people of Taiwan. It is a Formosan language of the...
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The Saaroa or Hla'alua people (Chinese: 拉阿魯哇族) are an indigenous people of central southern Taiwan. They live in the two villages of Taoyuan and Kaochung...
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Tsouic (abandoned in Blust 2013) Tsou language Saaroa language Kanakanavu language Western Plains Thao language a.k.a. Sao: Brawbaw and Shtafari dialects...
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languages (also known as the Central Formosan languages) are three Formosan languages, Tsou proper and the Southern languages Kanakanavu and Saaroa....
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Saaroa may refer to: Saaroa people Saaroa language This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Saaroa. If an internal link led you...
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An endangered language is a language that it is at risk of falling out of use, generally because it has few surviving speakers. If it loses all of its...
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Voiceless dental and alveolar lateral fricatives (category Articles containing Saaroa-language text)
lateral fricative is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents voiceless...
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dialects. A sixth dialect, Takipulan, became extinct in the 1970s. The Saaroa and Kanakanavu, two smaller minority groups who share their territory with...
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The languages of Taiwan consist of several varieties of languages under the families of Austronesian languages and Sino-Tibetan languages. The Formosan...
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Tsouic branch, with Tsou more divergent than the other two languages, Kanakanabu and Saaroa. Tsou does not have much dialectal variation. There are four...
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Washington , the United States Saaroa – Lhaʼalua Spoken in: Taiwan Sadri – सादरी (नागपुरी), ସାଦ୍ରୀ, সাদরি Official language in: India Saek – แถร̄ก Spoken...
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Formosan language with the largest number of phonemes with 23 consonants and 4 vowels containing length contrast, while Kanakanavu and Saaroa have the...
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An endangered language is a language that is at risk of falling out of use, generally because it has few surviving speakers. If it loses all of its native...
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6–10 are found in Amis, Basay, Bunun, Kanakanabu, Kavalan, Paiwan, Puyuma, Saaroa and Tsou. Pazeh, Favorlang, Saisiat and Taokas reflect *RaCep 'five'. Laurent...
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U with bar (section Languages that use U bar)
central rounded vowel. Catío Emberá Comanche Kanakanavu Kʼicheʼ Koyukon Saaroa Tsou Yemba Ngiemboon D with stroke (Đ, đ) I with bar (Ɨ, ɨ) "Unicode Character...
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Stacy F. (2016). "Reassessing the Position of Kanakanavu and Saaroa among the Formosan Languages" (PDF). Oceanic Linguistics. 55 (1): 162–198. doi:10.1353/ol...
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have several names in different languages, including former names. Many cities have different names in different languages. Some cities have also undergone...
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all major Formosan languages as well as Tagalog and Sundanese. These infixes are not productive in any modern Austronesian language. Their meanings remain...
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Amis people (category CS1 uses Chinese-language script (zh))
group native to Taiwan. They speak the Amis language (Caciyaw no Pangcah; Minuqamian), an Austronesian language, and are one of the sixteen officially recognized...
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consonants. This list features standard dialects of languages. The languages are classified under primary language families, which may be hypothesized, marked...
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Taiwan (category Articles containing Chinese-language text)
Ami, Atayal, Bunun, Kanakanavu, Kavalan, Paiwan, Puyuma, Rukai, Saisiyat, Saaroa, Sakizaya, Sediq, Thao, Truku and Tsou live mostly in the eastern half of...
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Kaohsiung (category Articles containing Chinese-language text)
Namasia. The main indigenous groups in the city include the Bunun, Rukai, Saaroa and the Kanakanavu. As of December 2010, Kaohsiung hosts around 21,000 foreign...
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Kanakanavu people (category Articles containing Chinese-language text)
Position of Kanakanavu and Saaroa within the Formosan Languages Revisited (PDF). The 14th International Symposium on Chinese Languages and Linguistics (IsCLL-14)...
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Basay are an aboriginal people of Taiwan. Their ancestors spoke the Basay language. During the 1600s, the Basay people monopolized control over river and...
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Namasia District (category CS1 uses Chinese-language script (zh))
Position of Kanakanavu and Saaroa Within the Formosan Languages Revisited (PDF). The 14th International Symposium on Chinese Languages and Linguistics (IsCLL-14)...
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Sakizaya people (category CS1 uses Chinese-language script (zh))
culture. The Sakizaya language was classified as a dialect of Nataoran Amis, a Formosan language that belongs to the Austronesian language family. However,...
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The writing systems of the Formosan languages are Latin-based alphabets. Currently, 16 languages (45 dialects) have been regulated. The alphabet was made...
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Plains Indigenous peoples (category CS1 uses Chinese-language script (zh))
This ethnic group has since been extensively assimilated with Han Chinese language and culture; they have lost their cultural identity, and it is almost impossible...
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Demographics of Taiwan (category Articles containing Chinese-language text)
(Taroko) in 2004, Sakizaya in 2007, Seediq in 2008, Kanakanavu in 2014, and Saaroa in 2014. There are at least another dozen groups that are not officially...
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Taiwanese indigenous peoples (category CS1 uses Japanese-language script (ja))
in varying degrees of language death and loss of original cultural identity. For example, of the approximately 26 known languages of the Taiwanese indigenous...
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