The Sirayaic languages are a sub-branch of the East Formosan group within the Formosan branch of the Austronesian family, spoken in southern Taiwan. The group comprises Siraya and the closely related Taivoan and Makatao, whose proto-language is estimated to have split from the other East Formosan languages around 3,500 years ago before the three varieties began to diverge roughly 3,000 years ago.
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The Proto-Siraya language is the reconstructed ancestor of the Sirayaic branch
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The Sirayaic languages are one of the sub-branches of the Formosan branch, under the Austronesian languages family.
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