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Puyuma

Morphological typology

Puyuma has 4 types of focus (actor, object, referent, and instrumental), 3 verbal aspects (perfect, imperfect, future), 2 modes (imperative and hortative future) and many affixes (perfect, imperfect, future, hortative future, imperative, etc).

Basic Information

Puyuma is an Austronesian language spoken by one of the indigenous groups on the east coast of Taiwan. There are about 10,800 speakers. Speakers of the Puyuma language also speaks Mandarin and Taiwanese Hokkien. The ISO code for the language is pyu. The orthography used to be Han script, but it's no longer in use. The orthography now is Latin script.

Resources Available

There are Bible portions translated in 1990. There are grammar references and web pages that talk about Puyuma language.