Paiwan
Sign in to saveAlso known as Paiwan language, pwn, Payuan
Austronesian language spoken in Taiwan
Key facts
- Pronunciation
- [vinutsuʎan]
- Native to
- Taiwan
- Ethnicity
- Paiwan
- Native speakers
- L1 :96,000 (2014)
- Language family
- Austronesian Paiwan
- Writing system
- Latin ( Paiwan alphabet )
- Official language in
- Taiwan
- Iso 639 3
- pwn
- Glottolog
- paiw1248
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- modern language
- Subclass of
- Formosan
- Country
- Taiwan
Show 9 more facts
- topic's main category
- Category:Paiwan language
- indigenous to
- Taitung County
- Wikimedia language code
- pwn
- native label
- Pinayuanan
- Wikimedia Incubator URL
- incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/pwn
- P10369
- Torricella Peligna
- number of speakers, writers, or signers
- 96000
- writing system
- Latin script
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Encyclopedic overview
Paiwan (Paiwan: Vinuculjan, [vinutsuʎan]) is a native language of southern Taiwan. It is spoken as a first language by the ethnic Paiwan, a Taiwanese indigenous people, and historically as a second language by most people in southern Taiwan. Paiwan is a Formosan language of the Austronesian language family. It is also one of the national languages of Taiwan.
Dialects
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Paiwan” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.