Atayal Atayalic Formosan Austronesian Natural Languages Linguistics

Atayal is a Atayalic Formosan member of the Austronesian language family spoken by approximately 63,000 speakers in the Ketagalan region of Formosa (Taiwan). Alternative names for Atayal include Tayal, Tyal, Taiyal, Ataiyal, Attayal, Taijyal, Bonotsek, shabogala, Takonan, Tangao and Yukan.

• - Links and information on Atayal language and culture.
  
• - M.A. thesis (National Tsing Hua University, 1999) by Wendy Mae Lambert tying epenthesis, metathesis and vowel-glide alternations together as prosodic reflexes predominantly of footing constraints. Uses optimality theory to see effects of integrated proso
  
• - A comparison of Atayal and Mandarin arguing that the semantics of negation are similar in each language and where different, they tend to be associated with the semantics of individual terms, not negation itself.
  
  

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