賽夏方言的比較詞彙

A COMPARATIVE VOCABULARY OF SAISIYAT DIALECTS

賽夏語族分佈在兩個地區：一個在北部新竹縣五峯鄉（大隘村及花園村）及北埔鄉（內坪村及大坪），另一個在南部苗栗縣南庄鄉（東河、蓬萊、南江、西村、獅山等五村）及獅潭鄉（百壽村）。北部以大隘為中心，南部以東河為中心。

Saisiyat is an Austronesian language in northern Taiwan, with a population less than 3,000 today . It ha9 two dialects: Taai 大隘 to the north and Tungho 東河 to the south. For the northern dialect, Ogawa and Asai (1935:109-128) outlined its phonetics, morphology and syntax and provided 7 texts with translation in Japanese , and Starosta (1974:325-333) discussed the causative construction in the lexicase model. As for the southern dialect, Chao (1954) and Tsuchida (1964) described its phonology based on their own observations of the data they collected in the field. I investigated both dialects, collecting data at all levels: phonology, syntax and vocabulary.