Kanakanabu language

Kanakanavu
Native to	Taiwan
Ethnicity	250 (no date)^[1]
Native speakers	4 (2012)^[2]
Language family	Austronesian Saaroa–Kanakanavu Kanakanavu
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.

Languages of Taiwan

Austronesian

Formosan

Atayalic	Atayal Seediq Truku Kankei

Rukaic	Rukai

Northern Formosan	Luilang Kulon Saisiyat Pazeh Kaxabu Thao Hoanya Papora Babuza Favorlang Taokas

East Formosan	Basay Ketagalan Kavalan Qauqaut Sakizaya Amis Siraya Taivuan Makatto

Southern Formosan	Bunun Puyuma Paiwan

Tsouic	Tsou Kanakanabu Saaroa

Malayo-Polynesian

Yami

Sino-Tibetan

Mandarin	Taiwanese Mandarin

Min	Taiwanese Hokkien Teochew dialect Fuzhou dialect Pu-Xian Min

Hakka	Taiwan Hakka

Auxiliary

Immigrant languages

Formosan languages

Rukaic

Rukai

Tsouic

Northern Formosan

Atayalic	Atayal Seediq

Northwest Formosan	Saisiyat Pazeh † Kulon † Thao Babuza † Favorlang †

East Formosan

Southern

Bold indicates languages with more than 1 million speakers
? indicates classification dispute
† indicates extinct status

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