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The Puyuma language or Pinuyumayan () is the language of the Puyuma people, a tribe of indigenous people on Taiwan (see Taiwanese aborigines). It is a divergent Formosan language of the Austronesian family. Most speakers are older adults. Puyuma is one of the more divergent of the Austronesian languages, and falls outside reconstructions of Proto-Austronesian. ==Dialects== The internal classification of Puyuma dialects below is from . Nanwang is usually showed to be the relatively phonologically conservative dialect but grammatically innovative, as it preserves proto-Puyuma voiced plosives and syncrets case. *Proto-Puyuma * *Nanwang * *(''Main branch'') * * *Pinaski–Ulivelivek * * *Rikavung * * *Kasavakan–Katipul Puyuma-speaking villages are: ;Puyuma cluster ('born of the bamboo') * Puyuma () * Apapulu () ;Katipul cluster ('born of a stone') * Alipai () * Pinaski (); 2 km north of Puyuma/Nanwang, and maintains close relations with it * Pankiu () * Kasavakan () * Katratripul () * Likavung () * Tamalakaw () * Ulivelivek () 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Puyuma language」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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