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Pazeh (also spelled Pazih) is the extinct language of the Pazeh, a Taiwanese aboriginal people. It was a Formosan language of the Austronesian languages language family. The last remaining native speaker of Pazeh proper, Pan Jin-yu, died in 2010 at the age of 96.〔 Before her death, she offered Pazeh classes to about 200 regular students in Puli, and a small number of students in Miaoli and Taichung.〔http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2008/06/26/2003415773〕 Kulun was a dialect that went extinct earlier. ==Phonology== Pazeh has 17 consonants, 4 vowels, and 4 diphthongs (-ay, -aw, -uy, -iw). # and do not actually share the same place of articulation; is alveolar or prealveolar and (as well as ) is interdental. Other coronal consonants tend to be prealveolar or post-dental. #The distribution for the glottal stop is allophonic, appearing only between like vowels, before initial vowels, and after final vowels. It is also largely absent in normal speech # is spirantized intervocalically # is actually an alveolar/prealveolar affricate and only occurs as a syllable onset. # varies between glottal and pharyngeal realizations () and is sometimes difficult to distinguish from Although Pazeh contrasts voiced and voiceless obstruents, this contrast is neutralized in final position for labial and velar stops, where only and occur respectively ( is also devoiced but a contrast is maintained). and are also neutralized to the latter. Voiceless stops are unreleased in final position. Mid vowels ( and ) are allophones of close vowels ( and respectively). * Both lower when adjacent to . * lowers before . and are in free variation before *Reduplicated morphemes carry the phonetic vowel even when the reduplicated vowel is not in the phonological context for lowering. * * → ('keep clapping'). is somewhat advanced and raised when adjacent to . Prevocally, high vowels are semivocalized. Most coronal consonants block this, although it still occurs after . Semivowels also appear post-vocally. 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「Pazeh language」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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