Kavalan

East Formosan language of Taiwan
Language language Q716627
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Kavalan

Summary

Kavalan is a language[1]. Kavalan ranks in the top 5% of language entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (96 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Kavalan is in the country of Taiwan[3].
  • Kavalan's instance of is recorded as language[4].
  • Kavalan's instance of is recorded as modern language[5].
  • Kavalan is a type of East Formosan[6].
  • Kavalan's Wikimedia language code is recorded as ckv[7].
  • Kavalan's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Kavalan language[8].
  • Kavalan's number of speakers, writers, or signers is recorded as {'amount': '+70'}[9].
  • Kavalan's UNESCO language status is recorded as 5 critically endangered[10].
  • Kavalan's indigenous to is recorded as Hualien County[11].
  • Kavalan's indigenous to is recorded as Yilan County[12].
  • Kavalan's indigenous to is recorded as Taipei[13].
  • Kavalan's exact match is recorded as http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/CKV[14].
  • Kavalan's Ethnologue language status is recorded as 8b Nearly Extinct[15].

Why It Matters

Kavalan ranks in the top 5% of language entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (96 views/month).[2] Kavalan has Wikipedia articles in 12 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[16] Kavalan is known by 4 alternative names across languages and contexts.[17]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . scriptsource.org. Retrieved . scriptsource.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . Ethnologue. wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . iso639-3.sil.org. iso639-3.sil.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . Ethnologue. wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . Red Book of Endangered Languages. Retrieved . unesco.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . Language. op.europa.eu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . Ethnologue. Retrieved . ethnologue.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [16] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [17] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 2d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Ethnologue language status 8b Nearly Extinct
    Country
    Indigenous to Hualien County, Yilan County, Taipei
    Instance of language, modern language
    + 8 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|3 */ [[Property:P8189]]: 987007535081005171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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