| Saaroa | |
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| Spoken in | Taiwan |
| Region | west central Mountains of Taiwan, south and southeast of Minchuan, along the Laonung River |
| Ethnicity | 300 |
| Native speakers | 6 (2000) |
| Language family |
Austronesian
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | sxr |
Saaroa (autonym: ɬaʔalua) is a Southern Tsouic language is spoken by the Saaroa, a tribe of indigenous people on Taiwan (see Taiwanese aborigines). It is a Formosan language of the Austronesian family.
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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.
Saaroa has heavily borrowed from Mantauran Rukai, since the Saaraa and Rukai peoples are geographically adjacent to each other.[1]
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