Puyuma (Kadas, Panapanayan, Pelam, Pilam, Piyuma, Pyuma, Tipun) is the language of the Puyuma people, widely spoken in eastern Taiwan (see Taiwan Aborigines ). The language has dialects of Nanwan, Pinan.
| Poyuma | |
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| Self name | 南王 |
| Country | Taiwan |
| Regions | East coast south of Taitung |
| Official status | Chinese |
| Total number of speakers | 8490 (2002) |
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| Language Codes | |
| ISO 639-1 | - |
| ISO 639-2 | - |
| ISO 639-3 | pyu |
| Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger | |
| Ethnologue | |
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| Glottolog | |
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Internal classification
The internal classification of Pouyum dialects from Tina (1978) is presented below. Usually, the dialect shown is relatively nanologically phonologically to be a conservative dialect, but grammatically innovative, since it preserves voicable explosive consonants and a syncretic case in proto-pojuma.
- Proto-pojuma
- Nanwan
- ( Main branch )
- Pinawski
- Rikavun
- Kasavakan Katipul
Dialects spoken in Puyum villages:
Poyuma group
- Puyuma (Chinese: Nanwang 南王)
- Apapolo (Chinese: Paosang 寶 桑)
Catipul group
- Alipay (Chinese: Pinlang 賓朗)
- Pinaski (Chinese: Hsia Pinlang 下 賓朗)
- Banku (Chinese: Pankiu)
- Casabacan (Chinese: Chienhe 建和)
- Katipul (Chinese: Chihpen 知本)
- Rikabun (Chinese: Lichia 利嘉)
- Tamalakav (Chinese: Taian 泰安)
- Ulibulibuk (Chinese: Chulu 初鹿)
Phonology
There are 18 consonants in the Puyum language ( b, d, ɖ, g, j, k, l, ɭ, m, n, ŋ, p, r, s, t, ʈ, w, ʔ ) and 4 vowels ( a, i , u, ə ) sound.
Notes
Links
- Puyuma at Ethnologue