Yilan Creole
[aka Hanhsi Atayal, Hanxi, 寒溪話]Classification: Pidgin or Creole
·endangered
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Endangered
80 percent certain, based on the evidence available
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~3000
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3407 (as of 2010)
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0
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0
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"Taiwan was colonized by Japan from 1895-1945. In order to completely control the indigenous people, the government's policy was to move residents from the heart of the mountains to the plains... As a consequence of emigration, Atayal and Sediq people from different villages were forced to live together and constitute new communities... The mutually unintelligible groups, Atayal and Sediq, needed a lingua franca for inter-group communication..." (p.353)
- DOMAINS OF USE
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- TRANSMISSION
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- MORE ON VITALITY
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Those born after 1980s don't speak Yilan Creole.
- OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY
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Mandarin Chinese; Japanese (elders)
- LANGUAGE CONTEXT COMMENTS
"[I]n 2006, inhabitants of Hanhsi village petitioned and succeeded in getting Yilan Creole on the test. As a result, their language variety was named Hanhsi Atayal and classified as a dialect of the Atayal language. But due to strong opposition from people who speak traditional Atayal, the government has decided to exclude Hanhsi Atayal starting in 2011." (p.351)
- Scripts (Writing system)
- no
- PLACES
- eastern Taiwan
- LOCATION DESCRIPTION
4 villages of Yilan 宜蘭 County: Tungyueh 東岳 village, Chinyang 金洋 village, Aohua 澳花 village, and Hanhsi 寒溪 village.