Puyuma language
The Puyuma language or Pinuyumayan (Chinese: 卑南語; pinyin: Pēinán Yǔ) is the language of the Puyuma people, a tribe of indigenous people on Taiwan (see Taiwanese aborigines). It is a divergent Formosan language of the Austronesian family. Most speakers are older adults.
Puyuma is one of the more divergent of the Austronesian languages, and falls outside reconstructions of Proto-Austronesian.
Dialects
The internal classification of Puyuma dialects below is from (Ting 1978). Nanwang is usually showed to be the relatively phonologically conservative dialect but grammatically innovative, as it preserves proto-Puyuma voiced plosives and syncrets case.
- Nanwang
- (Main branch)
- Pinaski–Ulivelivek
- Rikavung
- Kasavakan–Katipul
- Pinaski–Ulivelivek
- Rikavung
- Kasavakan–Katipul
Puyuma-speaking villages are:
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