The Tsouic languages are three Formosan languages of Taiwan: Tsou proper and the southern languages Kanakanavu and Saaroa. Kanakanavu and Saaroa have the smallest phonemic inventories of any Formosan language, each with only 13 consonants and 4 vowels, and both are highly endangered as speakers shift to Bunun or Mandarin Chinese.
Facts
Proto-Language StatusProto-Tsouic, reconstructed by Shigeru Tsuchida in 1976 1 Sources
1. Tsouic languages, Wikipedia
Infobox, Geographic distribution
Central Taiwan
Classification section
The Proto-Tsouic language was reconstructed by Japanese linguist Shigeru Tsuchida in 1976, and is supported by Blust (1999), Li (2008), and Sagart (2014).
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