| Rukai | ||
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| Spoken in | Taiwan | |
| Total speakers | ~10,000 | |
| Language family | Austronesian Tsou-Rukai ? Rukai |
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1 | None | |
| ISO 639-2 | – | |
| ISO 639-3 | dru | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. | ||
Rukai is the mother tongue of the Rukai, a tribe of indigenous people on Taiwan (see Taiwanese aborigines). It is a Formosan language of the Austronesian languages language family. There are some 10,000 speakers, some monolingual. There are several dialects, of which Mantauran, Tona, and Maga are divergent.
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