Paiwan
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Austronesian language spoken in Taiwan
Key facts
- Pronunciation
- [vinutsuʎan]
- Native to
- Taiwan
- Ethnicity
- Paiwan
- Native speakers
- L1 :96,000 (2014)
- Language family
- Austronesian Paiwan
- Writing system
- Latin ( Paiwan alphabet )
- Official language in
- Taiwan
- Iso 639 3
- pwn
- Glottolog
- paiw1248
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Paiwan (Paiwan: Vinuculjan, [vinutsuʎan]) is a native language of southern Taiwan. It is spoken as a first language by the ethnic Paiwan, a Taiwanese indigenous people, and historically as a second language by most people in southern Taiwan. Paiwan is a Formosan language of the Austronesian language family. It is also one of the national languages of Taiwan.
Dialects
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