Atayalic | |
Region: | Northern Taiwan |
Familycolor: | Austronesian |
Protoname: | Proto-Atayalic |
Glotto: | atay1246 |
Glottorefname: | Atayalic |
Lingua: | 30-AA |
Child1: | Atayal |
Child2: | Seediq |
The Atayalic languages are a group of Formosan languages spoken in northern Taiwan. Robert Blust considers them to form a primary branch within the Austronesian language family, However, Paul Jen-kuei Li groups them into the Northern Formosan branch, which includes the Northwestern Formosan languages.
Li (1981) and Li (1982) classify the Atayalic languages and dialects as follows:[1]
Proto-Atayalic | |
Familycolor: | Austronesian |
Ancestor: | Proto-Austronesian |
Target: | Atayalic languages |
The Proto-Atayalic language was reconstructed by Taiwanese linguist Paul Jen-kuei Li in 1981.[1] Proto-Atayalic had final voiced stops, which are preserved in the Mayrinax dialect of Cʔuliʔ Atayal.[2] These voiced stops include *-b, *-d, *-g, and *-g'. However, they are now lost in many dialects of Atayal, Seediq, and also Pazeh (Blust 2009:615).