Bunun
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Formosan language spoken by the Bunun people of Taiwan
Key facts
- Native to
- Taiwan
- Ethnicity
- Bunun people
- Native speakers
- 38,000 (2002)
- Language family
- Austronesian Bunun
- Dialects
- Isbukun Takituduh Takibaka Takbanuaz Takivatan Takipulan †
- Writing system
- Latin ( Bunun alphabet )
- Recognised minority language in
- Taiwan
- Iso 639 3
- bnn
- Glottolog
- bunu1267
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- natural language
- Subclass of
- Formosan
- Country
- Taiwan
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- topic's main category
- Category:Bunun language
- linguistic typology
- agglutinative language
- writing system
- Latin script
- Wikimedia language code
- bnn
- native label
- Bunun
- indigenous to
- Taitung County
- P10369
- Ilana Verdansky
- number of speakers, writers, or signers
- 38000
- different from
- Bunun
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Encyclopedic overview
The Bunun language (Chinese: 布農語) is spoken by the Bunun people of Taiwan. It is one of the Formosan languages, a geographic group of Austronesian languages, and is subdivided in five dialects: Isbukun, Takbunuaz, Takivatan, Takibaka and Takituduh. Isbukun, the dominant dialect, is mainly spoken in the south of Taiwan. Takbunuaz and Takivatan are mainly spoken in the center of the country. Takibaka and Takituduh both are northern dialects. A sixth dialect, Takipulan, became extinct in the 1970s.
The Saaroa and Kanakanavu, two smaller minority groups who share their territory with an Isbukun Bunun group, have also adopted Bunun as their vernacular.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Bunun” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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