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.
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Classification Confidence Reconstructed Ancestor Proto-Language StatusProto-Tsouic, reconstructed by Shigeru Tsuchida in 1976 2 Compare
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Sources
1. Glottolog: Tsouic (languoid record)
GlottologLanguoid record: child_language_count
"child_language_count": 3
Languoid record: level and category
"level": "family", "bookkeeping": false, "category": "Family"
View the Source 2. Tsouic languages, Wikipedia
Infobox: region
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).
Infobox: protoname
Proto-Tsouic
View the SourceWikidata: Tsouic languages
Wikidata Q716659, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)
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