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The 'Atayal language' is spoken by the Atayal people of Taiwan. The language has about 32 dialects, of which Sqoleq, Ts'ole' and Mayrinax are the most well-known.
There is a dictionary of the language and a grammar. In 2002 a Bible text was published. Ayatal is written in the Latin alphabet.

Contents

Phonology

Vowels

Consonants

References

Further reading

External links

Phonology

Vowels

	Front	Central	Back
High
Mid
Low

Consonants

		Bilabial	Alveolar	Postalveolar	Palatal	Velar	Uvular	Glottal
Stop
Affricate
Fricative	Voiceless
	Voiced
Nasal
Lateral
Flap
Semivowel

References

Further reading

★ Valle, G. d. (1963). ''Handbook of Atayal, as it is spoken in Wufeng (Hsinchu hsien)''. Taichung: Kuangchi Press

External links

★ Ethnologue report for Atayal