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Languages of Taiwan

The Linguasphere Register records 7 entries for Taiwan, spread across 4 of its ten sectors. Each row below links to the Register entry, where the sets, chains and individual languages underneath it can be opened.

7Register entries
4Sectors present
5Zones
0Language entries

3= AUSTRONESIAN 4= EURASIA 7= SINO-INDIAN 9= TRANSAFRICAN

Register entries recorded in Taiwan

CodeEntryLevelNote
30-HRUKAISetFORMOSAN-CENTRAL-SOUTH.
30-IBUNUN + BUKUNSetFORMOSAN-CENTRAL-EAST.
30=TAIWANICZoneCovers the "Formosan" grouping, part of the "Austronesian" intercontinental affinity.
31=FILIPINICZone
45=EAST-EURASIAZoneCovers the "East-Asia" reference area, composed of sets not covered in any phylozone, part of the "wider Altaic …
79=SINITICZoneCovers the "Chinese" or Han-Yu set, part of the "Sino-Tibetan" ("Sino-Indian") continental affinity.
99=BANTUICZoneCovers the "broad Bantu", "narrow Bantu + Bantoid" or Isizulu + Tiv set (the central-southern section of "old …

Country placements come from the geographic data published with the Linguasphere Register. They mark where a speech community is recorded, not where a language is official. See sources and attribution.