The Atayalic languages are a group of Formosan languages spoken in northern Taiwan. Robert Blust considers them to form a primary branch within the Austronesian language family, while Paul Jen-kuei Li instead groups them into the Northern Formosan branch, alongside the Northwestern Formosan languages.
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Classification Confidence Reconstructed Ancestor Proto-Language StatusProto-Atayalic, reconstructed by Paul Jen-kuei Li in 1981 2 Compare
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Atayalic is one of the primary Formosan branches, spoken in northern Taiwan.
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The Atayalic languages are a group of Formosan languages spoken in northern Taiwan.
Sources
1. Glottolog: Atayalic (languoid record)
GlottologLanguoid record: child_language_count
"child_language_count": 2
Languoid record: level and category
"level": "family", "bookkeeping": false, "category": "Family"
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Infobox, region
Northern Taiwan
Reconstruction
The Proto-Atayalic language was reconstructed by Taiwanese linguist Paul Jen-kuei Li in 1981.
Infobox: protoname
Proto-Atayalic
View the SourceWikidata: Atayalic languages
Wikidata Q716610, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)
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