Overview
Arrow pointing down
Critically Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

?

Domains of Use

No data

Speaker Number Trends

No data

Transmission

No data

Community Members

    No members

Revitalization Programs

No programs

Discussion Forum

    Comments are not currently available for this post.

Language Information By Source

Australia and the Pacific
Arrow pointing down
Critically Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

?

Domains of Use

No data

Speaker Number Trends

No data

Transmission

No data

Speakers

Second-language speakers

No data

Semi-speakers

No data

Child speakers

No data

Young adult speakers

No data

Older adult speakers

No data

Elder Speakers

No data

Ethnic Population

No data

Non-monolingual speakers

No data

More about speakers

No data

Year of info

2007

Location and Context

Countries

Taiwan

Coordinates

23.978097,121.605898

Location description

Originally spoken in the northeastern coastal area of Taiwan from north of Toucheng 頭城southwards through Ilan 宜蘭 to Sanhsing 三星 and inland on the Lanyang 蘭陽 River. No speakers left in the original area, only migrant speakers in the village of Hualien 花蓮 in the Nataoran language area, and by a few in the area of the large Atayal language.

Government support

No data

Institutional support

No data

Speakers’s attitudes

No data

Standard orthography

No data

Script (Writing system)

No data

Other writing systems

Originally spoken in the northeastern coastal area of Taiwan from north of Toucheng 頭城southwards through Ilan 宜蘭 to Sanhsing 三星 and inland on the Lanyang 蘭陽 River. No speakers left in the original area, only migrant speakers in the village of Hualien 花蓮 in the Nataoran language area, and by a few in the area of the large Atayal language.

More on writing systems

No data

Other languages used

Chinese

Domains of other languages

No data

More on context

Most have shifted to Chinese

Severely Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

24

Domains of Use

No data

Speaker Number Trends

No data

Transmission

No data

Speakers

Second-language speakers

No data

Semi-speakers

No data

Child speakers

No data

Young adult speakers

No data

Older adult speakers

No data

Elder Speakers

No data

Ethnic Population

No data

Non-monolingual speakers

No data

More about speakers

No data

Year of info

2010

Location and Context

Countries

No data

Coordinates

24.7393,121.6996

Location description

No data

Government support

No data

Institutional support

No data

Speakers’s attitudes

No data

Standard orthography

No data

Script (Writing system)

No data

Other writing systems

No data

More on writing systems

No data

Other languages used

No data

Domains of other languages

No data

More on context

No data

Critically Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

24

Domains of Use

No data

Speaker Number Trends

No data

Transmission

No data

Speakers

Second-language speakers

No data

Semi-speakers

No data

Child speakers

No data

Young adult speakers

No data

Older adult speakers

No data

Elder Speakers

24

Ethnic Population

1000

Non-monolingual speakers

No data

More about speakers

24 (2000 P. Li). Ethnic population: 1000

Year of info

2009

Location and Context

Countries

Taiwan

Coordinates

24.6, 121.85; 24.75, 121.75; 24.85, 121.8166667

Location description

Northeast coast, above Toucheng to Ilan, nearly to Suao, and inland to Atayal [tay] language area. No longer spoken in the original area; a few migrants to the east coast, Hsishe village, Fengpin Township, Hualien County (1990).

Government support

No data

Institutional support

No data

Speakers’s attitudes

No data

Standard orthography

No data

Script (Writing system)

No data

Other writing systems

Northeast coast, above Toucheng to Ilan, nearly to Suao, and inland to Atayal [tay] language area. No longer spoken in the original area; a few migrants to the east coast, Hsishe village, Fengpin Township, Hualien County (1990).

More on writing systems

No data

Other languages used

No data

Domains of other languages

No data

More on context

No data

Severely Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

24

Domains of Use

No data

Speaker Number Trends

No data

Transmission

No data

Speakers

Second-language speakers

No data

Semi-speakers

No data

Child speakers

No data

Young adult speakers

No data

Older adult speakers

No data

Elder Speakers

No data

Ethnic Population

No data

Non-monolingual speakers

No data

More about speakers

No data

Year of info

Location and Context

Countries

No data

Coordinates

No data

Location description

No data

Government support

No data

Institutional support

No data

Speakers’s attitudes

No data

Standard orthography

No data

Script (Writing system)

No data

Other writing systems

No data

More on writing systems

No data

Other languages used

No data

Domains of other languages

No data

More on context

No data

Media Resources

No resources

No resources

No resources

No resources

Filter By

No programs

  1. 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
    2012. "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."
  2. 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/
  3. World Oral Literature Project
    "World Oral Literature Project." Online: http://www.oralliterature.org.
    http://www.oralliterature.org
  4. Australia and the Pacific
    Wurm, Stephen A. 2007. Australia and the Pacific. In Christopher Moseley, Encyclopedia of the World's Endangered Languages, 1 edn., 424-557. Abingdon: Routledge. ISBN 070071197X
  5. Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger
    Moseley, Christopher (ed.). 2010. Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger, 3rd edn. http://www.unesco.org/culture/en/endangeredlanguages/atlas. (03 June, 2011.)
    http://www.unesco.org/culture/en/endangeredlanguages/atlas
  6. Documenting and revitalizing Kavalan
    Fuhui Hsieh and Shuanfan Huang (謝富惠、黃宣範). 2007. Documenting and revitalizing Kavalan. In D. Victoria Rau and Margaret Florey (eds.), Documenting and Revitalizing Austronesian Languages. University of Hawai‘i Press. http://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/bitstream/handle/10125/1354/06hsiehsmall.pdf..?sequence=2
    http://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/bitstream/handle/10125/1354/06hsiehsmall.pdf..?sequence=2
  7. Kavalan Dictionary
    Li, Paul Jen-kuei and Shigeru Tsuchida. 2006. Kavalan Dictionary. Taipei: Academia Sinica.
  8. 噶瑪蘭語參考語法 [A reference grammar of Kavalan]
    張永利 (Henry Y. Chang),2000。噶瑪蘭語參考語法 [A reference grammar of Kavalan]。遠流出版社 (Yuan-Liou Publishing Co., Ltd.) [in Chinese]
  9. 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