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Saaroa language

 
Wikipedia: Saaroa language
Saaroa
Spoken in Taiwan
Region west central Mountains of Taiwan, south and southeast of Minchuan,along the Laonung River
Total speakers
Language family Austronesian
Language codes
ISO 639-1 None
ISO 639-2
ISO 639-3 sxr

Saaroa is the language of the Saaroa, a tribe of indigenous people on Taiwan (see Taiwanese aborigines). It is a Formosan language of the Austronesian family. In 1990, Saaroa was nearly extinct. Few children speak the language. The Bunun language is becoming the main language of the Saaroa people, and many of the elders in the tribe speak Taiwanese. The shift to the Bunun language occurred when the Bunun tribe migrated into the area inhabited by the Saaroa people.

References

  • Gordon, Raymond G., Jr.(ed.)2005:Ethnologue:Languages of the World, Fifteenth edition. Dallas,Tex:SIL International. Online Version:htt://www.ethnologue.com/.

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