Puyuma language
| Puyuma | |
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| 卑南語 | |
| Native to | Taiwan |
| Ethnicity | Puyuma people |
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Native speakers
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8,500 (2002) |
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Austronesian
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | |
| Glottolog | puyu1239 |
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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.
The internal classification of Puyuma dialects below is from (Ting 1978). Nanwang is usually shown to be the relatively phonologically conservative dialect but grammatically innovative, as it preserves proto-Puyuma voiced plosives and syncrets case.
Puyuma-speaking villages are:
Puyuma has 18 consonants and 4 vowels:
Puyuma verbs have four types of focus:
There are three verbal aspects:
There are two modes:
Affixes include:
Puyuma has a verb-initial word order.
Articles include:
The Puyuma personal pronouns are:
The Puyuma affixes are:
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