Yami language

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Joan (and all),

According to "Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 13th ed. (Summer Inst. of
Ling., 1996), Yami is spoken on a small island SE of Taiwan by about 3,000
people.  It is "closely related to Ivatan of northern Philippines."  It is
in the Austronesian family, the Malayo-Polynesian sub-family (or whatever
these lower divisions are called), Nothern Philippine sub-sub-family, in a
subgroup with Ivatan that is referred to as Bashiic.

It appears from a map that these are island languages spoken on the Batan
Islands, which are between Taiwan and the Philippines.

Frank Abate