Also Known As:
Kanabu, Kanakanabu, Sprache von Formosa, 卡那卡那富語
Dialects & Varieties
Australia and the Pacific
Wurm, Stephen A. 2007. Australia and the Pacific. In Christopher Moseley, Encyclopedia of the World's Endangered Languages, 1 edn., 424-557. Abingdon: Routledge. ISBN 070071197X
Critically Endangered
60 percent certain, based on the evidence available
Speaker Number Trends
Speaker Number Trend 5
A small percentage of the community speaks the language, and speaker numbers are decreasing very rapidly.
5
Transmission
Transmission 5
There are only a few elderly speakers.
5
Speakers
Native or fluent speakers:
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Second-language speakers and learners
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Semi-speakers or rememberers
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Children:
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Young adults
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Older adults
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Elders
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Ethnic or community population
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Year information was gathered
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Comments on speakers
Most members of ethnic group have shifted to Bunun and Taiwanese Chinese.
Location and Context
Countries
Taiwan
Location Description
Southern central Taiwan around the town of Minchuan
Government Support
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Institutional Support
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Speakers' Attitude
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Other Languages Used By The Community
Bunun; Taiwanese Chinese
Number of Other Language Speakers:
None
Domains of Other Languages:
None
Writing Systems
Standard orthography:
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Writing system:
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Other writing systems used:
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Comments on writing systems:
No literacy in language
Recent Resources
Ethnologue profile for Kanakanabu including Code, languguage, group, country, speakers, status, clas
Kanakanabu - Video
Dyen, I.. (2005).