Yami language
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The Yami language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Yami people. The Yami are a Malaysian people who inhabit Hungtow Island, located near southern Taiwan. Each aboriginal group in Taiwan speaks a distinct language, generally unintelligible to other groups. Before contact with the Dutch in the 17th century, the aboriginal people did not have a written language.12
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