classification: "Pidgin or Creole; Japanese based",
dialect_varieties: "",
public_comment: "The grammar is based on Atayal, whereas 70% of the lexicon is from Japanese.",
private_comment: null,
source_id:98894,
speakers: [
{
id:31654,
code_id:10717,
speaker_number: "1000-9999",
speaker_number_text: "~3000",
second_language_speakers: "",
semi_speakers: "",
children: "0",
young_adults: "0",
older_adults: "",
elders: "",
ethnic_population: "3407 (as of 2010)",
date_of_info: "",
public_comment: ""Taiwan was colonized by Japan from 1895-1945. In order to completely control the indigenous people, the government's policy was to move residents from the heart of the mountains to the plains... As a consequence of emigration, Atayal and Sediq people from different villages were forced to live together and constitute new communities... The mutually unintelligible groups, Atayal and Sediq, needed a lingua franca for inter-group communication..." (p.353)",
_other_languages_used: "Mandarin Chinese; Japanese (elders)",
domains_of_use: "Used mainly only in the home and/or with family, and may not be the primary language even in these domains for many community members.",