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Selected languages: Rukai
UPSID number: 2417
Alternate name(s): N/A
Classification: Austro-Tai, Tsouic
The languages has 27 segments
Frequency index: N/A
Sounds:
Comments:

Rukai is spoken in West central Mountains West
of the Pyuma in Taiwan.

Sources:

Li, P.J-K. 1973. Rukai Structure (Special Publication 64).
Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica,
Taipei.

Li, P.J-K. 1977. The Internal Relationships of Rukai.
Bulletin of the Institute of History and Philology,
Academia Sinica 48/1: 1-92.