Luilang language

Luilang
Ketagalan
Native toTaiwan
RegionBanqiao area, New Taipei City
EthnicityKetagalan
Extinctmid-20th century
Austronesian
  • (unclassified)
    • Luilang
Language codes
ISO 639-3kae
Glottologketa1243
Luilang is the northernmost of the four red areas in the map.

Luilang, or ambiguously Ketagalan (Ketangalan, Tangalan; Chinese: 凱達格蘭語; pinyin: Kǎidágélányǔ), was a Formosan language spoken south of modern-day Taipei in northern Taiwan by one of several peoples that have been called Ketagalan. The language probably went extinct in the mid-20th century and it is very poorly attested.

Location

According to oral tradition, the Luilang people originally inhabited four villages near Taipei: Luili (雷里, Leili), Siulang (秀朗, Xiulang), Bulisiat (務裡薛, Wulixue) and Liau-a (了阿, Liao'a). These merged under the combined name Luilang (雷朗, Leilang), and later migrated to their current location in Outer Oat-a (外挖仔庄, Waiwazizhuang) in the 18th century.

Name

The name 'Ketagalan' is used by Ethnologue and Glottolog for the Luilang language. However, that name is ambiguous, originally referring to all of plains tribes of northern Taiwan. There has been argument in the literature as to whether it is better applied to Luilang, to the south and west of Taipei, or to Basay, to the east. 'Luilang' is an ancestral village name, and so unambiguous for the language southwest of Taipei, whereas 'Basay' is the endonym of the language to the east, and also unambiguous.

Numerals

The numerals of Luilang are rather divergent. For instance, the Basay language has numerals 5–10 that are cognate with Proto-Malayo-Polynesian, which Luilang does not. Forms recorded by Guérin (using French transcription), Ino (using Japanese transcription) and Ogawa are:

Luilang numerals
source 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Xiulang? (Guérin 1868) saka tsusa toulou souvad laleup tsouloup patsouo-ana patouloun sateuna isit
Xiulang (Ino 1896) saka tsusa tooru sma naru tsuro yinai tonai satoronai
Xiulang (Ino 1897) saka tsusa tooru seva rārup tserup senai patoorunai satoorunai irip
Luilang (Ogawa 1944) sa(ka) tsusa tuḷu suva (na)lup (na)tsulup innai patulunai satulunai isit
Ketangalan tsa Lusa tsʰu: špat tsima anum pitu watsu siwa Labatan



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