Social:Papora-Hoanya language

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Short description: Extinct Formosan language of Taiwan
Papora-Hoanya
Native toTaiwan
EthnicityPapora, Hoanya
Extinct(date missing)
Austronesian
  • Western Plains Formosan
    • Central
      • Papora-Hoanya
Dialects
  • Papora
  • Hoanya
Language codes
ISO 639-3ppu
Glottologpapo1239[1]
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(orange) The Papora-Hoanya, Babuza, and Thao languages

The Sinicized Papora and Hoanya dialects constituted a Formosan language of Taiwan. They were spoken across the middle western side of the island, around Lishui, Chingshui, Shalu, and inland to Taichung.[2]

Papora is also spelled Papola, Bupuran, Vupuran; another name is Hinapavosa.

References

  1. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds (2017). "Papora-Hoanya". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/papo1239. 
  2. Ethnologue