Makatao

Makatao , also partly listed as Makattao , Takaraya or Tta'o , was a minority dialect of the indigenous people of Taiwan and was spoken by isolated smaller groups, such as the Makattao tribe , a branch of the Siraya .

The Siraya people lived in southwest Taiwan . The Makatao dialect has died out, as has the Siraya language. The well-known Japanese linguist Shigeru Tsuchida wrote a work about the influences of the Siraya language and the Makatao dialect on today's Taiwanese .

classification

• Austronesian languages
  • Formosa languages
    • Southwestern languages
      • Siraya
        • Makatao

Examples of language

Makatao	Siraya	German
ralum	dalum	water
toru	turu	tree

Web links

• classification

Individual evidence

1. ^ Carsten Storm, Mark Harrison (eds.): The Margins of Becoming: Identity and Culture in Taiwan (=  Studia formosiana . Volume 5 ). Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, Wiesbaden 2007, ISBN 978-3-447-05454-6 , p. 28 (English, limited preview in Google Book Search).
2. ↑ Darrell T. Tryon (Ed.): Comparative Austronesian Dictionary: An Introduction to Austronesian Studies (=  Trends in Linguistics: Documentation . No. 10 ). Walter de Gruyter, 1994, ISBN 3-11-012729-6 , p. 293 ff . ( limited preview in Google Book search).