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Rukai
Spoken in Taiwan
Total speakers ~10,000
Language family Austronesian
Language codes
ISO 639-1 None
ISO 639-2
ISO 639-3 dru
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Rukai is the mother tongue of the Rukai, a tribe of indigenous people on Taiwan (see Taiwanese aborigines). It is a Formosan language of the Austronesian languages language family. There are some 10,000 speakers, some monolingual. There are several dialects, of which Mantauran, Tona, and Maga are divergent.

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