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Salvador Japanese
サルバドル言葉 (Sarubadoru hōgen)
Native to	Formosa
Ethnicity	Salvador Japanese (Yamato)
Language family	Japonic Salvador Japanese
Early forms	Proto-Japonic Old Japanese Early Middle Japanese Late Middle Japanese
Writing system	Mixed scripts of Kanji (Chinese characters) and Kana (Hiragana, Katakana) Japanese Braille
Signed forms	Signed Japanese
Official status
Official language in	Formosa
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–

Salvador Japanese (サルバドル言葉, Sarubadoru kotoba), natively called Furusato Kotoba (故郷言葉), depending on classification, is one form of Japanese, or comprise a branch of Japonic (alongside mainland Japanese, Northern Ryukyuan, Southern Ryukyuan and Hachijō language). Salvador Japanese is currently spoken in Formosa, as well as in the Salvador Japanese diaspora. Based on the criterion of mutual intelligibility, Salvador Japanese may be considered a distinct Japonic language, rather than a dialect of Japanese.