Puyuma language
Austronesian language spoken in Taiwan / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Puyuma language or Pinuyumayan (Chinese: 卑南語; pinyin: Bēinányǔ), is the language of the Puyuma, an indigenous people of Taiwan. It is a divergent Formosan language of the Austronesian family. Most speakers are older adults.
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Puyuma | |
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Pinuyumayan | |
Native to | Taiwan |
Ethnicity | Puyuma people |
Native speakers | 8,500 (2002)[1] |
Austronesian
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | pyu |
Glottolog | puyu1239 |
ELP | Puyuma |
Linguasphere | 30-JAA-a |
(red) Puyuma | |
Puyuma is classified as Vulnerable by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger |
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Puyuma is one of the more divergent of the Austronesian languages and falls outside reconstructions of Proto-Austronesian.