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Puyuma language
Austronesian language spoken in Taiwan
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 language of the Austronesian family. Most speakers are older adults.
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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 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 Puyuma is considered to be the relatively phonologically conservative but grammatically innovative, as in it preserves proto-Puyuma voiced plosives but syncretizes the use of both oblique and genitive case. Puyuma-speaking villages are: Puyuma has 18 consonants and 4 vowels: Note that Teng uses ⟨lr⟩ for /ɭ/ and ⟨l⟩ for /l/, swapping their values in the official orthography. The official orthography is used in this article. 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:
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