Sakizaya
Native to	Taiwan
Ethnicity	990Sakizaya (2020)[1]
Native speakers	590 (2020)[1]
Language family	Austronesian East Formosan Amis–Sakizaya Sakizaya
Language codes
ISO 639-3	szy
Glottolog	saki1247
ELP	Sakizaya
(purple) Greater Ami. Nataoran and Sakizaya are in the north.
Sakizaya is classified as Critically Endangered by theUNESCOAtlas of the World's Languages in Danger

Sakizaya is aFormosan language closely related toAmis. One of the large family of Austronesian languages, it is spoken by theSakizaya people, who are concentrated on the eastern Pacific coast ofTaiwan. Since 2007 they have been recognized by the Taiwan government as one of the sixteen distinct indigenous groups on the island.

After theTakobowan incident [zh] of 1878, theSakizaya people hid among the Nataoran Amis. Scholars thus mistakenly categorised the Sakizaya language as a dialect ofAmis.

In 2002, the Center of Aboriginal Studies ofNational Chengchi University in Taiwan corrected this error when they edited the indigenous language textbooks. That year, the Sakizaya language was designated both as a Chilai and Amis sublanguage. Both are included in the family of Austronesian languages.^[2] On 17 January 2007, the Sakizaya community became the thirteenth distinct indigenous ethnic group recognised by the Taiwanese government.^[3]

A total of 985 people are registered as Sakizaya.^[4] They live primarily in the Takubuwan, Sakur, Maifor and Kaluluwan communities. Thousands of other Sakizaya are still registered as Amis, based on historic classifications. Around half of Amis politicians inHualien City, the biggest city in the Amis area, are said to be ethnic Sakizaya.^{[citation needed]}

• /ɡ/ may also occur, but is rare.
• Sounds /ʡ/ and /h/ may also be heard as [x] and [ʔ] in free variation.
• /ts, s, z/ are palatalized as [tɕ, ɕ, ʑ] when preceding front sounds /i, j/.
• /b/ may also be heard interchangeably as [f] among speakers.
• /l/ may also be heard as [r] when in word-final position. /d/ may also be heard as [r] in intervocalic position.^[5]

• Sakizaya people

Sakizaya edition ofWikipedia, the free encyclopedia

• Yuánzhùmínzú yǔyán xiànshàng cídiǎn 原住民族語言線上詞典(in Chinese) – Sakizaya search page at the "Aboriginal language online dictionary" website of the Indigenous Languages Research and Development Foundation
• Sakizaya teaching and leaning materials published by the Council of Indigenous Peoples of Taiwan(in Chinese)
• Sakizaya translation of President Tsai Ing-wen's 2016 apology to indigenous people – published on the website of the presidential office

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