Papora-Hoanya language

Papora-Hoanya
Native to Taiwan
Ethnicity Papora, Hoanya
Extinct (date missing)
Austronesian
Dialects
  • Papora
  • Hoanya
Language codes
ISO 639-3 ppu
Glottolog papo1239[1]

(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; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Papora". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  2. Ethnologue


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