Seediq
Sign in to saveAlso known as Taroko, Kari Seediq, Seediq language, Kari Seejiq, Kari Sediq, Truku
language
Key facts
- Native to
- Taiwan
- Region
- central, eastern, and coastal
- Ethnicity
- Seediq , Taroko
- Native speakers
- 20,000 (2008)
- Language family
- Austronesian Atayalic Seediq
- Writing system
- Latin ( Seediq alphabet )
- Iso 639 3
- trv
- Glottolog
- taro1264
- Elp
- Seediq
- Linguasphere
- 30-AAB
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- modern language
- Subclass of
- Atayalic
- Country
- Taiwan
Show 10 more facts
- writing system
- Latin script
- topic's main category
- Category:Seediq language
- linguistic typology
- verb–object–subject
- Wikimedia language code
- trv
- indigenous to
- Nantou County
- native label
- Kari Seediq
- number of speakers, writers, or signers
- 20000
- P10369
- John Locke
- Commons category
- Seediq language
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Encyclopedic overview
Seediq, also known as Sediq and Truku (previously transcribed as Taroko), is an Atayalic language spoken in the mountains of Northern Taiwan by the Seediq and Taroko people.
Subdivisions
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Seediq” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.