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    Formosan language of the Austronesian family. Kavalan is no longer spoken in its original area. As of 1930, it was used only as a home language. As of 1987...
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    encroachment by Han settlers. Their language is also known as Kavalan. Currently, the largest settlement of Kavalan is Xinshe (Kavalan: pateRongan) Village in Fengbin...
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  • Look up kavalan in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Kavalan may refer to: Kavalan people, an indigenous people of Taiwan Kavalan language, formerly spoken...
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    and *j) Northern (Kavalanic languages) Basay language: Trobiawa and Linaw–Qauqaut dialects Kavalan language Ketagalan language, or Ketangalan Central (Ami)...
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    Kavalan Distillery (Chinese: 噶瑪蘭酒廠; pinyin: Gámǎlán jiǔchǎng) is a Taiwanese whisky distillery. It is owned by the King Car Group and is located at Yuanshan...
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  • Gemination (category Articles containing Kavalan-language text)
    Austronesian languages in the Philippines, Micronesia, and Sulawesi are known to have geminate consonants. The Formosan language Kavalan makes use of...
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    Carabao (category Articles containing Kavalan-language text)
    Spanish) a caraballa. Cognates include Cebuano kábaw, Tagalog kalabáw, Kavalan qabaw, Minangkabau kabau, Malay/Indonesian kerbau, Javanese kebo, and Indonesian...
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    Formosan languages consist of various Formosan languages scattered across Taiwan, including Kavalan, Amis, and the extinct Siraya language. This grouping...
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  • Voiceless uvular plosive (category Articles containing Kavalan-language text)
    uvular plosive or stop is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. It is pronounced like a voiceless velar plosive [k], except that the...
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    Domesticated plants and animals of Austronesia (category Articles containing Kavalan-language text)
    Lengkuas is also the source of the leaves used to make nanel among the Kavalan people of Taiwan, a rolled leaf instrument used as a traditional children's...
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    heavy Kavalan influence in her speech. Li (1992) mentions four Basaic languages: Basay, Luilang, Nankan, Puting. Nankan and Puting are close to Kavalan, whereas...
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    SVO Thao: VSO, SVO Amis: VOS, VSO Kavalan: VOS Puyuma: VSO Paiwan: VSO, VOS Tanan Rukai is the Formosan language with the largest number of phonemes...
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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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  • 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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    Yilan County, Taiwan (category Articles containing Chinese-language text)
    derives from the indigenous Kavalan people. Other former names in reference to this area in the Yilan Plain include Kabalan, Kavalan, Kavaland, kap-a-lan, Yiland...
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  • Kavalan Avan Kovalan (transl. Kovalan is a guard) is a 1987 Indian Tamil-language film, directed by Visu, starring Prabhu, Rekha and Madhuri. It was released...
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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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    tə-GAH-log; [tɐˈɡaːloɡ]; 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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    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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    The languages of Taiwan consist of several varieties of languages under the families of Austronesian languages and Sino-Tibetan languages. The Formosan...
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  • Njav is a Malakula language of Vanuatu. There are about 10 speakers. François et al. 2015. François, Alexandre; Franjieh, Michael; Lacrampe, Sébastien;...
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  • Caluyanon is a regional Western Bisayan language spoken in the Semirara Island Group, Caluya, Antique in the Philippines. Most of its speakers use either...
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  • George Leslie Mackay (category Articles containing traditional Chinese-language text)
    entire western half of Taiwan, only the Kavalan have continued as an organized community, still using their own language, in their exilic home on the northern...
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    Philippine languages (40 languages, including Tagalog, Bikol languages and Visayan languages) Palawan languages (3 languages) Subanen languages (6 languages; sometimes...
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  • Li Jen-kuei (category Articles containing Chinese-language text)
    is a leading specialist on Formosan languages and has published dictionaries on the Pazeh and Kavalan languages. Li was elected a member of Academia...
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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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    (Gagana faʻa Sāmoa or Gagana Sāmoa; IPA: [ŋaˈŋana ˈsaːmʊa]) is a Polynesian language spoken by Samoans of the Samoan Islands. Administratively, the islands...
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  • with this money." (or "This money was bought land with by my child.") Kavalan has three voices: Actor Voice, Patient Voice and Circumstantial Voice....
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    western Java. It is the native language of more than 68 million people. Javanese is the largest of the Austronesian languages in number of native speakers...
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    Ilokano; /iːloʊˈkɑːnoʊ/; Ilocano: Pagsasao nga Ilokano) is an Austronesian language spoken in the Philippines, primarily by Ilocano people and as a lingua...
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