«Taiwan's Yilan Creole: Revitalizing the only Japanese-based creole language in the world» in English with a Parallel Translation

Reading time: 
6 minutes
Publication date: 
08/05/2025
Creator: 
Abdulrosheed Fadipe
Source: 
Global Voices
Language: 
English
Difficulty: 
B2

Yilan is a Japanese-based creole language that was developed from colonial interactions between the speakers of the Indigenous Taiwanese Atayal language, Seediq language, and Japanese colonists during the period when Taiwan was under Japanese colonization (1895–1945).