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Preferred term

taoYami  

Type

  • Language

Definition

  • Yami (雅美), also known as Tao , is a variety of the Ivatan dialect cluster spoken by the Tao people of Taiwan. It is spoken on Orchid Island, 46 kilometers southeast of the main island of Taiwan. Yami is known as ciriciring no Tao, or "human speech," by its native speakers (Rau 2006:79). Yami is the only language of Taiwanese aborigines that does not fit in with the other Formosan languages but instead shares linguistic similarities with the Ivatan language spoken in the Batanes of northern Philippines.

Entry terms

  • Yami language

ISO 639-3 code

  • tao

Notation

  • tao

In other languages

  • Yami

    French

  • Yami

    Italian

  • Lengua yami

    Spanish

URI

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/tao

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