Kanakanabu language

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Name (Latin)
Kanakanabu language
Other forms of name
Kanabu language
Kanakanavu language
Ka'naka'nafu language
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Taiwan languages
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Taiwan
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Other Identifiers
Wikidata: Q172244
Library of congress: sh2019000515
Sources of Information
  • Work cat: 2018372919: Song, Limei. Ka'naka'nafu yu yu fa gai lun. 2018:("Ka'naka'nafu yu" = Ka'naka'nafu language [alternate transliteration from title] ; This book discusses the grammar of the Kanakanabu language)
  • Ethnologue (viewed online March 6, 2019)(Kanakanabu; alternate names: Kanabu, Kanakanavu; A language of Taiwan; classification: Austronesian, Tsouic)
Wikipedia description:

Kanakanavu (also spelled Kanakanabu) is a Southern Tsouic language 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. The language is moribund, with only 4 speakers (2012 census).

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