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Kavalan (Kebalan/kbalan) was formerly spoken in the Northeast coast area of Taiwan by the Kavalan people (噶瑪蘭). It is an East 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, it was still spoken in Atayal territories. In 2000, this language was still reported to be spoken by 24 speakers but considered moribund. ==Dialects== Kavalan consists of the following speech communities ordered from north to south (Li 2006:1):〔 *Kariawan (Jialiwan 加禮宛) - near Hualien, a formerly Sakizaya-speaking area *Patʀungan (Xinshe 新社) - located in Fungpin (豐濱鄉), Hualien *Kulis (Lide 立德) *Kralut (Zhangyuan 樟原) These speech communities in eastern Taiwan were named after older settlements from the north, such as Kariawan, Sahut, and Tamayan, where the Kavalan people originally migrated from. Modern-day Kavalan speakers are surrounded by the Amis. Many Kavalan can also speak Amis, Taiwanese, Mandarin, and Japanese (Li 2006:1). 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「Kavalan language」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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