Langenesis

Austronesian family

Atayal

c. 1500 CE – today Living

Atayal (c. 1500 CE – today) is a living Austronesian language. Lineage: Proto-Austronesian → Atayal.

See Atayal on the interactive map
ISO 639-3
tay
Glottocode
atay1247

Atayalic branch of Formosan, spoken in the mountains of northern Taiwan. Formosan languages form several primary branches of Austronesian; no Formosan subgroup is assumed. Start date is nominal (no pre-colonial written record).

Lineage

  1. Proto-Austronesianc. 3,500 BCE – 2,500 BCE
  2. Atayalc. 1500 CE – today

Sister languages 3

Also descended from Proto-Austronesian.

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