Tsou (鄒族、曹族)
Native to: Taiwan
Region: Alishan
Ethnicity: Tsou
Native speakers: 2,100 (2002)
Language family: Austronesian
ISO 639-3 tsu
Glottolog: tsou1248
Tsou (Cou)
The Tsou people are one of 26 recorded indigenous groups (原住民族) of Taiwan. Nine of these indigenous languages are no longer actively spoken, although some, like Siraya, are being revitalized by their communities. The government recognizes 16 distinct tribes but recognition of tribal status in Taiwan, as in other countries, can be difficult and controversial.
The indigenous languages of Taiwan belong to the Austronesian family and constituted the only languages of the island before the large scale arrival of the Chinese in the 17th century. Archaeology suggests that Taiwan had already been inhabited by an Austronesian population from about 6,200 years before present. Due to large scale immigration from China over the last 400 years, the entire aboriginal population of Taiwan now only makes up a little over 2% of the entire Taiwanese population. In Tawian, the four dialects of Tsou are spoken in multiple villages, Tapangu, Tfuya, Luhtu, and Limucu, which is now extinct. Tapangu and Tfuya are spoken in villages scattered in Chia-yi county, while Luhtu is only spoken in one village in Central Taiwan and is on the verge of extinction. (Zeitoun 2005).
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