泰雅語方言群的區分條件

Linguistic Criteria for Classifying the Atayalic Dialect Groups

語言的區分條件可以包括音韻、詞彙、構詞及語法幾方面的現象。觀察泰雅語與賽德語的音韻差異有六條，但泰雅語的萬大方言卻有四個音韻條件與賽德語相合，因此只剩下兩條勉強可用來區分泰雅語與賽德語。這兩種語言的詞彙差異遠比音韻的差異顯著。

The purpose of this paper is to establish linguistic criteria for classifying the Atayalic dialect group. These criteria may be phonological, lexical, morphological and syntactic. However, not much morphological or syntactic data is available for the entire group, and phonological evidence is not always decisive. The major evidence presented in this paper is therefore lexical. The Atayalic group is comprised of two main languages, Atayal and Sediq. Atayal, in turn, consists of two major dialect groups, Squliq (Sq) and Cʔuliʔ (Tsʔole). I have collected fairly extensive lexical materials for 4 Squliq dialects: Pyasan (hereafter abbreviated as Ps), Pyanan (Pn), Lmuan (Lm), Mstbaun (Mst); and for 11 Cʔuliʔ dialects: Skikun (Sk), Mnawyan (Mn), Maspaziʔ (Ms), Mayrinax (Mx), Mabatuʔan (Mb), Matabalay (Mt), Sakuxan (Sx), Bayʔanux (Bx), Talawan (Tl), Bʔalaʔ (Bl), Palŋawan (Pl); and for 4 Sediq dialects: Toŋan (Tn), Todaʔ (Td), Truwan (Tr) and Inago (In).