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Puyuma language

The Puyuma language or Pinuyumayan (Chinese: ?????????; pinyin: B??in??ny??), 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. Puyuma is one of the more divergent of the Austronesian languages and falls outside reconstructions of Proto-Austronesian. Dialects 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. Proto-Puyuma Nanwang (Main branch) Pinaski???Ulivelivek Pinaski Ulivelivek Rikavung Kasavakan???Katipul Kasavakan Katipul...

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