| Your first name |
Iwan |
| Your last name |
Pelin |
| E-mail: |
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| Preferred name(s) of your language |
Seediq |
| Alternative names |
Sediq, Saediq, Seedik, Sejiq, Sedeq, Seedek, Seedeq, Shedekka, Sedek, Sediakk,
Sedik, Sazek, Bu-Hwan, Che-Hwan, Daiya-Ataiyal, Hogo, Iboho, Paran, Taruku,
Toroko, Truku, Toda |
| Language classification |
Austronesian , Atayalic |
| Geographical areas where spoken |
Taiwan: Central, eastern and coastal; northern mountains in the Puli area and along the coast south of Hualien, south of the Atayal |
| Approximate number of monolingual speakers |
0 |
| Approximate number of fluent speakers |
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| Other languages spoken in area/country |
Mandarin Chinese, Taiwanese, other indigenous languages |
| Official language(s) in your country |
Mandarin Chinese |
| Language(s) used at school as a child |
Primarily Mandarin but children study their tribal language about 2 hours every week |
| Language(s) used by teachers today |
Primarily Mandarin but there are teachers who teach indigenous languages |
| Do the representatives of neighboring ethnic groups learn to speak your language |
No |
| If the answer to the above question is yes, please specify |
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| Does your language have a widely accepted writing system? |
Yes |
| If you answered yes, what materials are written? |
Bible, language-learning textbooks (mostly for elementary schools) |
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| NUMBERS |
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| one |
gingan |
| two |
daha |
| three |
deru(g) |
| four |
sepac |
| five |
rima |
| six |
mmuderu |
| seven |
pitu |
| eight |
mmusepac |
| nine |
mungari |
| ten |
maxan |
