Kanakanabu language

Kanakanavu
Native to Taiwan
Ethnicity 250 (no date)[1]
Native speakers
4  (2012)[1]
Austronesian
  • Saaroa–Kanakanabu

    • Kanakanavu
Language codes
ISO 639-3 xnb
Glottolog kana1286[2]

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.[3]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Kanakanavu at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Kanakanabu". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  3. Zeitoun & Teng (2014), abstract.