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...
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The Bunun (Bunun: Bunun), also historically known as the Vonum, are a Taiwanese indigenous people. They speak the Bunun language. Unlike other aboriginal...
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Look up Bunun in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Bunun can refer to: the Bunun people of Taiwan the Bunun language, their Austronesian language This disambiguation...
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Siraya language Bunun language Rukai language Mantauran, Tona, and Maga dialects of Rukai are divergent Puyuma language Paiwan language (south-eastern...
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Atua (category Articles containing Bunun-language text)
cultures, cognates of atua include the Polynesian aitu, Micronesian aniti, Bunun hanitu, Filipino and Tao anito, and Malaysian and Indonesian hantu or antu...
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Taiwan blue magpie (category Articles containing Bunun-language text)
Tsou, Thao, and Bunun peoples. The sacred bird is called Teofsi'za in Tsou, Fitfit in Thao, and Haipis (Isbukun group) / Kaipis in Bunun. In the common...
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critically endangered. Even among native speakers of the language, they use primarily Mandarin or Bunun in their daily lives. There is no longer an active speech...
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Voiceless dental and alveolar lateral fricatives (category Articles containing Bunun-language text)
[Triplication in Isbukun Bunun] (PDF). 臺灣語文研究 [Journal of Taiwanese Languages and Literature] (in Chinese). 13 (1). Taiwan Languages & Literature Society:...
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100 Peaks of Taiwan (category Articles containing Bunun-language text)
The Baiyue (Chinese: 臺灣百岳; pinyin: Táiwān bǎiyuè) is a list of one hundred mountain peaks in Taiwan. They were chosen by a group of prominent Taiwanese...
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List of mountains in Taiwan (category Articles containing Bunun-language text)
The island of Taiwan has the largest number and density of high mountains in the world.[citation needed] This article summarizes the list of mountains...
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Thao people (category Articles containing Chinese-language text)
larger Austronesian language family. The Thao language has loanwords from the Bunun language, spoken by the Bunun ethnic group of which the Thao/Ngan cooperated...
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An endangered language is a language that is at risk of falling out of use, generally because it has few surviving speakers. If it loses all of its native...
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translations into other languages of Taiwan are done or being done: Paiwan language (New Testament/part of OT in 1993), Bunun language (NT in 1983; part of...
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An endangered language is a language that it is at risk of falling out of use, generally because it has few surviving speakers. If it loses all of its...
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Malay: Bahasa Melayu, Jawi: بهاس ملايو) is an Austronesian language that is an official language of Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore, and that...
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pronouns "bu", where sound "b" is replaced with sound "m". For example: "bunun>munun//mının, muna//mına, munu//munı, munda//mında, mundan//mından". In...
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Namasia District (category CS1 uses Chinese-language script (zh))
Namasia District (Kanakanavu language, Bunun language: Namasia; Chinese: 那瑪夏區; Hanyu Pinyin: Nàmǎxià Qū; Tongyong Pinyin: Nàmǎsià Cyu; Wade–Giles: Na4-ma3-hsia4...
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Makatau: Pingtung Bunun: Hsinyi (信義鄉) in Nantou County Paiwan: Ailiao River, near the foot of the mountains Cognate sets for Formosan languages (Wiktionary)...
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tə-GAH-log; [tɐˈɣaː.loɡ]; Baybayin: ᜆᜄᜎᜓᜄ᜔) is an Austronesian language spoken as a first language by the ethnic Tagalog people, who make up a quarter of the...
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Chiaming Lake (category Articles containing Chinese-language text)
Taitung County, Taiwan. It is the second highest lake area in Taiwan. In Bunun language, Chiaming Lake is called "cidanuman buan", meaning "Mirror of the moon";...
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indoˈnesija]) is the official and national language of Indonesia. It is a standardized variety of Malay, an Austronesian language that has been used as a lingua franca...
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Savungaz Valincinan (redirect from Lee I want to exclusively list my tribal name, my Bunun tribal name is Savungaz Valincinan)
Lǐ Pǐnhán) prior to exclusively using her Bunun name. Her Bunun-language name is Savungaz Valincinan; Bunun uses the Latin script. It is transliterated...
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significant indigenous languages include Atayal, Paiwan, and Bunun. In addition to the recognized languages, there are around 10 to 12 groups of Taiwanese Plains...
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X' mya- : used to derive various verbs min- : derives inchoative verbs (Bunun loan?); 'become an X' or 'become like an X' (with kinship terms) mu- : most...
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Binisayâ/Bisayâ nga Hiniligaynon/Inilonggo, is an Austronesian regional language spoken in the Philippines by about 9.1 million people, predominantly in...
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Yanping Township, Taitung County. S. halumicus was named after the Bunun language word for pangolin, halum. A colony numbering less than fifty individuals...
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Chamorro (CNMI[expand acronym]), Finoʼ CHamoru (Guam)) is an Austronesian language spoken by about 58,000 people, numbering about 25,800 on Guam and about...
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pronounced [ʔoːˈlɛlo həˈvɐjʔi]) is a Polynesian language and critically endangered language of the Austronesian language family that takes its name from Hawaiʻi...
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m. For example: bunun>munun/mının, muna/mına, munu/munı, munda/mında, mundan/mından. This is observed in the Turkmen literary language as well, where the...
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The Bisayan languages or Visayan languages are a subgroup of the Austronesian languages spoken in the Philippines. They are most closely related to Tagalog...
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