Saisiyat
Saiset; Seisirat; Saisett; Saisiat; Saisiett; Saisirat; Saisyet; Saisyett; Amutoura; Bouiok; Sprache von Formosa; 賽夏語
Austronesian; Northwest Formosan
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Mandarin; Hakka; Atayal
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The language is divided into two dialects, north (Taai) and South (Tungho) - 18 speakers of Taai; 1,000 ~ 3,000 speakers of Tungho.
2015
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Taiwan
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"The Northern group used to speak the Taai dialect (also known as the Northern dialect) and lives in the upper reaches of the Shangping river in Wufeng township, Hsinchu county (新竹縣五峰鄉 xīnzhúxiàn wǔfēngxiāng). The Southern group speaks the Tungho dialect, also referred to as the Southern dialect. Most of the population is distributed throughout the valley delineated by the Eastern and the Southern rivers in Nanchuang township, Miaoli county (苗栗縣南庄鄉 miáolìxiàn nánzhuāngxiāng). A small amount of the population among the Southern group is also located in the upper reaches of the Shihtan River in Shihtan township, Miaoli county (苗栗縣獅潭鄉 miáolìxiàn shītánxiāng)."
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"The Northern group used to speak the Taai dialect (also known as the Northern dialect) and lives in the upper reaches of the Shangping river in Wufeng township, Hsinchu county (新竹縣五峰鄉 xīnzhúxiàn wǔfēngxiāng). The Southern group speaks the Tungho dialect, also referred to as the Southern dialect. Most of the population is distributed throughout the valley delineated by the Eastern and the Southern rivers in Nanchuang township, Miaoli county (苗栗縣南庄鄉 miáolìxiàn nánzhuāngxiāng). A small amount of the population among the Southern group is also located in the upper reaches of the Shihtan River in Shihtan township, Miaoli county (苗栗縣獅潭鄉 miáolìxiàn shītánxiāng)."
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Mandarin as the medium of education
"The Taai (population) has been much acculturated to the Atayal, while the Tungho dialect has been (in some villages) influenced by Hakka (different degrees of language contact)."
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In 1978, 3,200 speakers of Saisiyat were reported, but the language is now endangered.
2007
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In the western mountains, to the west of the large Atayal language area
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In the western mountains, to the west of the large Atayal language area
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All the speakers are above 40 years old (the article is written in 2006).
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Saisiyat does have an orthography, but few people use it. The government does not promote the use of Saisiyat language. Mandarin Chinese is used in almost all domains, especially the formal ones. Only some word lists, oral texts, and sketch grammars are published for linguistic analyses. No dictionary.
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Data for the number of native speakers comes from the Council of Indigenous Peoples (2002).
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The Saisiyat can be further divided into two branches- the northern group and the southern group. The northern group lives in Wufong 五峰 Village, Hsinchu 新竹 County. By contrast, the southern group lives in Nanjuang 南庄 and Shrtan 獅潭 Villages of Miaoli 苗栗 County, Taiwan.
2014
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Taiwan
24.591, 121.148; 24.580, 121.010
Mostly live in Wufong 五峰 Village, Hsinchu 新竹 County, and Nanjuang 南庄 and Shrtan 獅潭 Villages of Miaoli 苗栗 County in Taiwan
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Mostly live in Wufong 五峰 Village, Hsinchu 新竹 County, and Nanjuang 南庄 and Shrtan 獅潭 Villages of Miaoli 苗栗 County in Taiwan
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- Endangered Languages Catalogue Project. Compiled by research teams at University of Hawai'i Mānoa and Institute for Language Information and Technology (LINGUIST List) at Eastern Michigan University2012. "Endangered Languages Catalogue Project. Compiled By Research Teams At University of Hawai'i Mānoa and Institute For Language Information and Technology (LINGUIST List) At Eastern Michigan University."
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- World Oral Literature Project"World Oral Literature Project." Online: http://www.oralliterature.org.http://www.oralliterature.org
- The Tribes in Taiwan (Saisiyat)Council of Indigenous Peoples (行政院原住民族委員會). 2014. "The Tribes in Taiwan (Saisiyat)." Online: http://www.apc.gov.tw/portal/docList.html?CID=2418BFC08FD0A1D0.http://www.apc.gov.tw/portal/docList.html?CID=2418BFC08FD0A1D0
- Endangered languages and phonetic change: A case study of Saisiyat (瀕危語言及其語音變化—以台灣的賽夏語為例)Shu-chuan (陳淑娟) Chen. 2006. "Endangered Languages and Phonetic Change: A Case Study of Saisiyat (瀕危語言及其語音變化—以台灣的賽夏語為例)." In Journal of Language and Literature (國立新竹教育大學語文學報), 53-69. National Hsinchu University of Education.
- 原住民族語言使用狀況調查報告原住民族委員會 Council of Indigenous Peoples. 2016. 原住民族語言使用狀況調查報告.http://www.apc.gov.tw/portal/docDetail.html?CID=964B9BFAAA44B32A&DID=0C3331F0EBD318C29EC71D49B5E8708F
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