Where is Vernacular Atayalic Japanese spoken?

Vernacular Atayalic Japanese (Kankei) is a Japonic language, spoken in China and Taiwan. It is marked on the map by a ringed point.

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Where Vernacular Atayalic Japanese is spoken

Vernacular Atayalic Japanese is spoken in 2 countries: China and Taiwan.

Vernacular Atayalic Japanese has no area on the map because no open area map covers it. The ringed point is the position Glottolog gives for the language.

How many people speak Vernacular Atayalic Japanese?

Wikidata holds no speaker count for this language.

Status: Shifting. Glottolog lists it as shifting: the youngest speakers are adults, and children are growing up speaking another language.

Where Vernacular Atayalic Japanese sits in the language family tree

Glottolog classifies Vernacular Atayalic Japanese as follows, from the largest family down to the language itself.

  1. Japonic
  2. Japanesic
  3. Japan-Taiwan Japanese
  4. Vernacular Atayalic Japanese

Related languages

Other languages in the Japan-Taiwan Japanese group:

More about Vernacular Atayalic Japanese

Codes: ISO 639-3 ycr, Glottolog yila1234. Glottolog macroarea: Papunesia.

Questions about Vernacular Atayalic Japanese

Where is Vernacular Atayalic Japanese spoken?

Vernacular Atayalic Japanese is spoken in China and Taiwan. On the map it is shown as a single point, because no open area map covers it.

Which language family is Vernacular Atayalic Japanese in?

Glottolog places Vernacular Atayalic Japanese in the Japonic family, in the branch Japanesic and Japan-Taiwan Japanese.

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