About Me & My Language |
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Hello! My name is Apay Ai-yu Tracy
Tang, and I am a graduate student in linguistics at the University of
Hawaii. I am a speaker of Truku.
Truku is spoken in Hualien, situated in the Eastern part of Taiwan, and has about 20,000 speakers. It is one of the Formosan languages, specifically a subgroup of Atayal, commonly referred to as Sediq (Sejiq). In addition, Sediq consists of three dialects: Teuda, Tkdaya and Truku (Yang 1993, a handout). |
| First name | Apay (Ai-yu) |
| Last name | Tang |
| Preferred name(s) of your language | Truku, Seejiq |
| Language classification | Austronesian (Formosan ) |
| Geographic areas where spoken | Eastern Taiwan |
| Approximate number of monolingual speakers | unknown (young speakers don't speak Truku) |
| Approximate number of fluent speakers | unknown (60 years old above) |
| Other languages spoken in area/country | Official language: Mandarin Chinese; other 13 indigenous Formosan languages |
| Do the representatives of neighboring ethnic groups learn to speak your language? | No |
| Does you language have a widely accepted writing system? | Romanization |
| If you answered yes, what materials are written? | 3 textbooks for beginning learners, a hymnbook, a 300-word Truku-Chinese Dictionary and the Bible |
| 1 | kingal |
| 2 | dha |
| 3 | tru |
| 4 | spat |
| 5 | rima |
| 6 | mataru |
| 7 | empitu |
| 8 | maspat |
| 9 | mngari |
| 10 | maxal |