BYQ ISO 639-3
Basay
A language of China–Taiwan
- ISO 639
- byq
- Alternate Names
- Basai, Basay-Trobiawan, Kawanuwan, Ketangalan, Sprache von Formosa
- Population
- No known L1 speakers (Liu 2007). The last fluent speaker probably died by the 1910s.
- Location:
- New Taipei Municipality.
- Language Status
- 10 (Extinct).
- Classification
- Austronesian, East Formosan, Northern
- Dialects
- Trobiawan, Linaw-Qauqaul.
- Language Development
- Grammar. Texts.
- Other Comments
- Sinicized. Older people remember a few words.
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Map
Location: New Taipei Municipality.
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