Thao language
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| Thao | ||
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| Spoken in: | Taiwan | |
| Total speakers: | 15+ (1998) | |
| Language family: | Austronesian Formosan Thao |
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | β | |
| ISO 639-3: | ssf | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. See IPA chart for English for an English-βbased pronunciation key. | ||
Thao is the language of the Thao, a tribe of Taiwanese aborigines in the region of Sun Moon Lake in central Taiwan. In 1998 there were approximately 15 speakers, all but one of whom were over the age of sixty. It is a Formosan language of the Austronesian family.
[edit] Phonology
[edit] Reduplication
Thao has two or arguably three patterns of reduplication: Ca-reduplication, full reduplication, and rightward reduplication (which is sometimes considered to be a form of full reduplication).
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