Sakizaya | |
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Native to | Taiwan |
Ethnicity | 990 Sakizaya (2020)[1] |
Native speakers | 590 (2020)[1] |
Austronesian
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | szy |
Glottolog | saki1247 |
ELP | Sakizaya |
(purple) Greater Ami. Nataoran and Sakizaya are in the north. |
Sakizaya is a Formosan language closely related to Amis. One of the large family of Austronesian languages, it is spoken by the Sakizaya people, who are concentrated on the eastern Pacific coast of Taiwan. Since 2007 they have been recognized by the Taiwan government as one of the sixteen distinct indigenous groups on the island.