Yilan Creole Japanese

Yilan Creole is a Japanese-based creole spoken in four villages in southern Yilan County, Taiwan. It arose in the 1930s and 1940s through contact between Japanese colonists and the indigenous Atayal people of the area. The vocabulary of a speaker born in 1974 was 70% Japanese and 30% Atayal, but the grammar of the creole does not closely resemble either of the source languages.

Yilan Creole is mutually unintelligible with both Japanese and Atayal. The creole was identified in 2006 by Chien Yuehchen and Sanada Shinji, but its existence is still largely unknown. It was named by Sanada and Chien for its location. Mandarin, the most commonly spoken language in Taiwan, threatens the existence of Yilan Creole.

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