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Also 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

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
modern language
Subclass of
Atayalic
Country
Taiwan
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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
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.