Tsou language

Tsou language

language
name=Tsou
familycolor=Austronesian
fam2=Formosan
fam3=Tsouic
iso2=map
iso3=tsu
states=Taiwan
region=
speakers=

The Tsou language is the language of the Tsou, a tribe of indigenous people on Taiwan (see Taiwanese aborigines). It is a Formosan language of the Austronesian family.

Further reading

*Tsuchida, K. (1976). "Reconstruction of Proto-Tsouic phonology". [Tokyo: Institute for the Study of Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo Gaikokugo Daigaku.


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