Tsou language
E576945
Tsou language is an endangered Austronesian language spoken by the Indigenous Tsou people of central Taiwan.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tsou language canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6245541 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Tsou language Context triple: [Tsouic languages, hasMemberLanguage, Tsou language]
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A.
Tsouic languages
Tsouic languages are a small subgroup of indigenous Austronesian languages spoken in Taiwan, traditionally associated with the Tsou people and related communities.
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B.
Tai Lue language
Tai Lue is a Southwestern Tai language spoken primarily by the Tai Lue people in parts of China, Laos, Thailand, Myanmar, and Vietnam, known for its own traditional script and close relation to other Tai languages.
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C.
Kavalan language
The Kavalan language is an endangered Austronesian language of the indigenous Kavalan people of northeastern Taiwan.
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D.
Truku language
The Truku language is an indigenous Austronesian language of the Truku people in eastern Taiwan, noted for its complex phonology and endangered status.
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E.
Nyishi language
The Nyishi language is a Tani (Tibeto-Burman) language spoken primarily by the Nyishi people of Arunachal Pradesh in northeastern India.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Tsou language Target entity description: Tsou language is an endangered Austronesian language spoken by the Indigenous Tsou people of central Taiwan.
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A.
Tsouic languages
Tsouic languages are a small subgroup of indigenous Austronesian languages spoken in Taiwan, traditionally associated with the Tsou people and related communities.
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B.
Tai Lue language
Tai Lue is a Southwestern Tai language spoken primarily by the Tai Lue people in parts of China, Laos, Thailand, Myanmar, and Vietnam, known for its own traditional script and close relation to other Tai languages.
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C.
Kavalan language
The Kavalan language is an endangered Austronesian language of the indigenous Kavalan people of northeastern Taiwan.
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D.
Truku language
The Truku language is an indigenous Austronesian language of the Truku people in eastern Taiwan, noted for its complex phonology and endangered status.
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E.
Nyishi language
The Nyishi language is a Tani (Tibeto-Burman) language spoken primarily by the Nyishi people of Arunachal Pradesh in northeastern India.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Austronesian language
ⓘ
endangered language ⓘ |
| belongsTo | Tsouic branch (often treated as its own primary branch of Formosan) ⓘ |
| country | Republic of China ⓘ |
| ethnicity | Tsou people ⓘ |
| glottocode | tsou1248 ⓘ |
| glottologName | Tsou ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Cou
ⓘ
Tsouan ⓘ |
| hasCaseMarking | prepositional or particle-based case marking ⓘ |
| hasClauseType | complex clauses with subordination ⓘ |
| hasCommunityMediaUse | limited community radio and cultural programs ⓘ |
| hasDocumentation |
grammars by field linguists
ⓘ
lexicons and dictionaries ⓘ |
| hasMorphologicalFeature |
aspect marking
ⓘ
person marking on verbs ⓘ rich verbal morphology ⓘ voice marking on verbs ⓘ |
| hasNumeralSystem | decimal numeral system ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
contrastive aspiration in stops
ⓘ
limited vowel inventory ⓘ rich consonant inventory ⓘ |
| hasRevitalizationEffort |
community-based language classes
ⓘ
documentation projects by linguists ⓘ |
| hasSpeakerPopulationStatus | severely declining number of fluent speakers ⓘ |
| hasStressPattern | predictable stress placement ⓘ |
| hasSVOAlternativeOrder | yes ⓘ |
| hasTypologicalFeature |
ergative-like alignment patterns
ⓘ
focus alignment system ⓘ verb-initial basic word order ⓘ |
| isEndangeredBecauseOf |
language shift to Mandarin Chinese
ⓘ
language shift to Taiwanese Hokkien ⓘ |
| ISO639-3 | tsu ⓘ |
| isOfficialLanguageOf | none ⓘ |
| isPartOf |
Taiwan Indigenous languages
ⓘ
linked to:
Formosan languages
|
| isRecognizedBy | Council of Indigenous Peoples of Taiwan ⓘ |
| isTaughtIn | some local schools in Tsou communities ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Austronesian languages ⓘ |
| languageOf |
Tsou ritual chants
ⓘ
Tsou traditional oral literature ⓘ |
| region |
Chiayi County
ⓘ
Nantou County ⓘ |
| spokenBy | Tsou people ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Taiwan
ⓘ
linked to:
Taiwan, Province of China
central Taiwan ⓘ |
| status | endangered ⓘ |
| subfamily | Formosan languages ⓘ |
| writingSystem |
Latin script
ⓘ
linked to:
Latin alphabet
|
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Tsou language Description of subject: Tsou language is an endangered Austronesian language spoken by the Indigenous Tsou people of central Taiwan.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.