Truku language
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Truku/Taroko | ||
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Spoken in: | Taiwan | |
Region: | central, eastern, and coastal | |
Total speakers: | 4,750 | |
Language family: | Austronesian Atayalic Truku/Taroko |
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Language codes | ||
ISO 639-1: | none | |
ISO 639-2: | – | |
ISO 639-3: | trv | |
Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. |
Truku language, or Taroko language, one of the Taiwanese aboriginal languages, is spoken by the Truku people. It has many alternative names, such as "Taroko", which is used in Ethnologue: Languages of the World. There are 4,750 speakers.
The language has 19 consonants and 5 vowels. It is written in Latin alphabet.
[edit] Bibliography
- Gordon, Raymond G., Jr. (ed.), 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Fifteenth edition. Dallas, Tex.: SIL International. Online version: http://www.ethnologue.com/.