Saaroa
Saroa; Saarua; Rarua; La'alua; La'arua; Pachien; Paichien; Sisyaban; Shishaban; Sprache von Formosa; Hla’alua; 拉阿魯哇語
Austronesian; Tsouic
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The speaker number has reduced to less than 10 after an elderly speaker passed away in 2013.
2012
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Taiwan
23.133, 120.721; 23.228, 120.84989
The Lha’alua people reside in the Taoyuan Village (Chinese name: 桃源村) and Kaochung Village (Chinese name: 高中村), Taoyuan District (Chinese name: 桃源區), Kaohsiung City, Taiwan. Some Lha’alua people relocated themselves to the current Maya Village, Namasia District (Chinese name: 那瑪夏區), Kaohsiung City between 1931 and 1936.
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The Lha’alua people reside in the Taoyuan Village (Chinese name: 桃源村) and Kaochung Village (Chinese name: 高中村), Taoyuan District (Chinese name: 桃源區), Kaohsiung City, Taiwan. Some Lha’alua people relocated themselves to the current Maya Village, Namasia District (Chinese name: 那瑪夏區), Kaohsiung City between 1931 and 1936.
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Mandarin; Southern Min; Japanese (elderly population only); Bunun
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A few old speakers
2007
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Southcentral Taiwan
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Southeast of Minchuan and of the Kanakanabu language area, on the Laonung River
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Southeast of Minchuan and of the Kanakanabu language area, on the Laonung River
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2009
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Taiwan
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West central mountains, south and southeast of Minchuan (mangchu), along Laonung River, Namaxia district.
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West central mountains, south and southeast of Minchuan (mangchu), along Laonung River, Namaxia district.
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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
- Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16th Edition (2009)Lewis, M. Paul (ed.). 2009. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16 edn. http://www.ethnologue.com/home.asp. (15 February, 2011.)http://www.ethnologue.com/
- The Tribes in Taiwan (Hla’alua)Council of Indigenous Peoples (行政院原住民族委員會). 2015. "The Tribes in Taiwan (Hla’alua)." Online: http://www.apc.gov.tw/portal/docList.html?CID=786B260E9D63A127&type=D553881BB72C42C9D0636733C6861689 [in Chinese]http://www.apc.gov.tw/portal/docList.html?CID=786B260E9D63A127&type=D553881BB72C42C9D0636733C6861689
- 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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