Kanakanabu language
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| Kanakanavu | |
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| Native to | Taiwan |
| Ethnicity | 250 (no date)[1] |
Native speakers | 4 (2012)[2] |
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Austronesian
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
xnb |
| Glottolog |
kana1286[3] |
Kanakanavu (also spelled Kanakanabu) is a Southern Tsouic language is spoken by the Kanakanavu people, an indigenous people of Taiwan (see Taiwanese aborigines). It is a Formosan language of the Austronesian family.
The Kanakanavu live in the two villages of Manga and Takanua in Namasia District (formerly Sanmin Township), Kaohsiung.[4]
References
- ↑ Kanakanabu language at Ethnologue (15th ed., 2005)
- ↑ Kanakanavu at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Kanakanavu". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
- ↑ Zeitoun & Teng (2014), abstract.
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