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A grammar of Lha’alua, an Austronesian language of Taiwan
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Critically Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

10

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Ethnic Population

400

Non-monolingual speakers

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More about speakers

The speaker number has reduced to less than 10 after an elderly speaker passed away in 2013.

Year of info

2012

Location and Context

Countries

Taiwan

Coordinates

23.133, 120.721; 23.228, 120.84989

Location description

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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Script (Writing system)

Roman Script

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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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Other languages used

Mandarin; Southern Min; Japanese (elderly population only); Bunun

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Ethnic Population

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Non-monolingual speakers

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More about speakers

A few old speakers

Year of info

2007

Location and Context

Countries

Southcentral Taiwan

Coordinates

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Location description

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

More on writing systems

No data

Other languages used

Bunun, Taiwanese Chinese

Domains of other languages

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Critically Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

6

Domains of Use

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Ethnic Population

300

Non-monolingual speakers

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More about speakers

Data for the number of native speakers comes from S. Wurm (2000).

Year of info

2009

Location and Context

Countries

Taiwan

Coordinates

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Location description

West central mountains, south and southeast of Minchuan (mangchu), along Laonung River, Namaxia district.

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Script (Writing system)

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Other writing systems

West central mountains, south and southeast of Minchuan (mangchu), along Laonung River, Namaxia district.

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