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Bunun, spoken by the fourth largest population located in a region traversing most of Taiwan’s Central Mountain Range from Nantou in the north to Taitung in the southeast, subsumes five dialects divided into three groups: Takibakha and Takituduh make up the Northern branch, Takivatan and Takbanuaz constitute the Central branch and Isbukun represents the Southern branch. This chapter offers a contrastive study of these five dialects with an emphasis on Isbukun and Takivatan, by examining Bunun phonology, word formation, word classes, and major syntactic structures.
Title:
Bunun
Handbook of Formosan Languages Online: The Indigenous Languages of Taiwan
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1163/2772-5766_HFLO_COM_305050
Language:
English
Source Editors:
Paul Jen-kuei Li, Elizabeth Zeitoun, and Rik De Busser
First-online:
20 Dec 2023
ISSN:
2772-5766
Publisher:
Brill

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