Overview
Arrow pointing down
Critically Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

Unknown

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

From diagnosis to remedial plan: A psycholinguistic assessment of language shift, L1 proficiency, and language planning in Truku Seediq
Arrow pointing down
Critically Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

Unknown

Domains of Use

No data

Speaker Number Trends

No data

Transmission

No data

Speakers

Second-language speakers and learners

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

24,000

Non-monolingual speakers

all

More about speakers

"[T]he current indigenous younger generations [below 40] are not able to speak their own imperiled tongues, nor are elderly speakers transmitting their languages to the next generations." (p.11) [Ethnic population number from CIP, 2011.]

Year of info

2011

Location and Context

Countries

Taiwan

Coordinates

24.081, 121.611

Location description

"Seediq dialects are spoken in the area north of Wushe village and in the valleys to the east and northeast of the village, as well as throughout the Central Mountain Range, as far as Truku Gorge and the Pacific coast" (p.1)

Government support

yes

Institutional support

[The] indigenous language education (one hour weekly) has been in force in elementary schools since 2001 in Taiwan

Speakers' attitudes

"Adults are different from children in that the Truku language is a significant part of their identity that cannot be easily forsaken. In contrast, younger generations are prone to be integrated into Mandarin environments because their motivation to learn or maintain Truku is comparatively low." (p.162)

Standard orthography

No data

Script (Writing system)

Roman scripts

Other writing systems

"Seediq dialects are spoken in the area north of Wushe village and in the valleys to the east and northeast of the village, as well as throughout the Central Mountain Range, as far as Truku Gorge and the Pacific coast" (p.1)

More on writing systems

No data

Other languages used

Mandarin

Domains of other languages

almost all

More on context

Mandarin is used in all sorts of domains, including school, church, and home, and is perceived as socioeconomically advantageous.

Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

~20,000

Domains of Use

No data

Speaker Number Trends

No data

Transmission

No data

Speakers

Second-language speakers and learners

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

25,000

Non-monolingual speakers

The entire community

More about speakers

While most sources list the ethnic population, there is relatively little information on native speakers.

Year of info

2005

Location and Context

Countries

Taiwan

Coordinates

23.77, 121.35; 23.84, 120.99

Location description

20,000 community members in Hualian prefecture and about 5,000 community members in Nantou prefecture.

Government support

Not one of the 10 officially recognized aboriginal languages in Taiwan

Institutional support

No data

Speakers' attitudes

No data

Standard orthography

No data

Script (Writing system)

No data

Other writing systems

20,000 community members in Hualian prefecture and about 5,000 community members in Nantou prefecture.

More on writing systems

No data

Other languages used

The entire community can generally speak Mandarin. The elderly population can also speak Japanese

Domains of other languages

No data

More on context

No data

Media 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. The World Atlas of Language Structures
    2005. "The World Atlas of Language Structures." edited by Bernard Comrie et al. Oxford University Press.
  3. Seediq
    Tsukida, Naomi. 2005. "Seediq." In The Austronesian Languages of Asia and Madagascar, edited by Alexander Adelaar and Nikolaus Himmelmann. 291-325. London & New York: Routledge.
  4. A Parametric Grammar of Seediq
    Holmer, Arthur J. A Parametric Grammar of Seediq. PhD thesis, Lund University, 1996.
  5. The Sedik Language of Formosa
    Asai, Erin. 1953. "The Sedik Language of Formosa." Kanazawa University-Cercle Linguistique de Kanazawa.
  6. Essai de dictionnaire taroko-français
    Pecoraro, Ferdinando. 1977. "Essai De Dictionnaire Taroko-français." S.E.C.M.I.
  7. From diagnosis to remedial plan: A psycholinguistic assessment of language shift, L1 proficiency, and language planning in Truku Seediq
    Tang, Apay Ai-yu. 2011. From diagnosis to remedial plan: A psycholinguistic assessment of language shift, L1 proficiency, and language planning in Truku Seediq. PhD dissertation. University of Hawaii at Manoa. http://www.ling.hawaii.edu/graduate/Dissertations/ApayTangFinal.pdf
    http://www.ling.hawaii.edu/graduate/Dissertations/ApayTangFinal.pdf
  8. 賽德克語參考語法 [A reference grammar of Seediq]
    張永利 (Henry Y. Chang),2000。賽德克語參考語法 [A reference grammar of Seediq]。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