Puyuma language

Puyuma
Puyuma
Pinuyumayan
Native to	Taiwan
Ethnicity	Puyuma people
Native speakers	8,500 (2002)
Language family	Austronesian Puyuma;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	pyu
Glottolog	puyu1239
ELP	Puyuma
Linguasphere	30-JAA-a
	(red) Puyuma
	Puyuma is classified as Vulnerable by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger

The Puyuma language or Pinuyumayan (Chinese: 卑南語; pinyin: Bēinányǔ), is the language of the Puyuma, an indigenous people of Taiwan. 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 Ting (1978). Nanwang Puyuma is considered to be the relatively phonologically conservative but grammatically innovative, as in it preserves proto-Puyuma voiced plosives but syncretizes the use of both oblique and genitive case.^[2]

Proto-Puyuma
- Nanwang
- (Main branch)
  - Pinaski–Ulivelivek
    - Pinaski
    - Ulivelivek
  - Rikavung
  - Kasavakan–Katipul
    - Kasavakan
    - Katipul

Puyuma-speaking villages are:^[3]

Puyuma cluster ('born of the bamboo')

Puyuma (Chinese: Nanwang 南王)
Apapulu (Chinese: Paosang 寶桑)

Katipul cluster ('born of a stone')

Alipai (Chinese: Pinlang 賓朗)
Pinaski (Chinese: Hsia Pinlang 下賓朗); 2 km north of Puyuma/Nanwang, and maintains close relations with it
Pankiu (Chinese: Pankiu 班鳩)
Kasavakan (Chinese: Chienhe 建和)
Katratripul (Chinese: Chihpen 知本)
Likavung (Chinese: Lichia 利嘉)
Tamalakaw (Chinese: Taian 泰安)
Ulivelivek (Chinese: Chulu 初鹿)

Phonology

Puyuma has 18 consonants and 4 vowels:

Puyuma Consonants^[4]
		Bilabial	Alveolar	Retroflex	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Nasal		m	n			ŋ ⟨ng⟩
Plosive	Voiceless	p	t	ʈ ⟨tr⟩		k	ʔ ⟨’⟩
Plosive	Voiced	b	d	ɖ ⟨dr⟩		ɡ
Fricative			s
Trill			r
Approximant			l ⟨lr⟩	ɭ ⟨l⟩	j ⟨y⟩	w

Puyuma Vowels^[4]
	Front	Central	Back
Close	i		u
Mid		ə ⟨e⟩
Open		a

Note that Teng uses ⟨lr⟩ for /ɭ/ and ⟨l⟩ for /l/, unlike in official version. The official orthography is used in this article.

Grammar

Morphology

Puyuma verbs have four types of focus:^[5]

Actor focus: Ø (no mark), -em-, -en- (after labials), me-, meʔ-, ma-
Object focus: -aw
Referent focus: -ay
Instrumental focus: -anay

There are three verbal aspects:^[5]

Perfect
Imperfect
Future

There are two modes:^[5]

Imperative
Hortative future

Affixes include:^[5]

Perfect: Ø (no mark)
Imperfect: Reduplication; -a-
Future: Reduplication, sometimes only -a-
Hortative future: -a-
Imperative mode: Ø (no mark)

Verb conjugation example for *trakaw* "to steal"^[6]
		Active	Patient	Locative	Causative
Realis	Unmarked	tremakaw	trakawaw	trakaway	trakawanay
	Progressive	trematrakaw	tratrakawaw	tratrakaway	tratrakawanay
	Durative	trematratrakaw	tratratrakawaw	tratratrakaway	tratratrakawanay
Irrealis		tratrakaw	tratrakawi		tratrakawan
Imperative		trakaw	trakawi	trakawu	trakawan
Hortative		tremakawa	—

Syntax

Puyuma has a verb-initial word order.

Articles include:^[7]

i – singular personal
a – singular non-personal
na – plural (personal and non-personal)

Pronouns

The Puyuma personal pronouns are:^[8]

Puyuma Personal Pronouns (Free)
Type of Pronoun	Nominative^[9]	Oblique: Direct	Oblique: Indirect	Oblique: Non-Subject	Neutral
1s.	nanku	kanku, kananku	draku, drananku	kanku	kuiku
2s.	nanu	kanu, kananu	dranu, drananu	kanu	yuyu
3s.	nantu	kantu, kanantu	dratu, dranantu	kantaw	taytaw
1p. (incl.)	nanta	kanta, kananta	drata, drananta	kanta	taita
1p. (excl.)	naniam	kaniam, kananiam	draniam, drananiam	kaniam	mimi
2p.	nanemu	kanemu, kananemu	dranemu, drananemu	kanemu	muimu
3p.	nantu	kantu, kanantu	dratu, dranantu	kantaw	–

Puyuma Personal Pronouns (Bound)
Type of Pronoun	Nominative (Subject)	Nominative (Possessor of subject)	Genitive
1s.	=ku	ku=	ku=
2s.	=yu	nu=	nu=
3s.	–	tu=	tu=
1p. (incl.)	=ta	ta=	ta=
1p. (excl.)	=mi	niam=	mi=
2p.	=mu	mu=	mu=
3p.	–	tu=	tu=

Affixes

The Puyuma affixes are:^[10]

Prefixes

ika-: the shape of; forming; shaping
ka-: stative marker
kara-: collective, to do something together
kare-: the number of times
ki-: to get something
kir-: to go against (voluntarily)
kitu-: to become
kur-: be exposed to; be together (passively)
m-, ma-: actor voice affix/intransitive affix
maka-: along; to face against
mara-: comparative/superlative marker
mar(e)-: reciprocal; plurality of relations
mi-: to have; to use
mu-: anticausative marker
mutu-: to become, to transform into
pa-/p-: causative marker
pu-: put
puka-: ordinal numeral marker
piya-: to face a certain direction
si-: to pretend to
tara-: to use (an instrument), to speak (a language)
tinu-: to simulate
tua-: to make, to form
u-: to go
ya-: to belong to; nominalizer

Suffixes

-a: perfective marker; numeral classifier
-an: nominalizer; collective/plural marker
-anay: conveyance voice affix/transitive affix
-aw: patient voice affix/transitive affix
-ay: locative voice affix/transitive affix
-i, -u: imperative transitive marker

Infixes

-in-: perfective marker
-em-: actor voice affix/intransitive affix

Circumfixes

-in-anan: the members of
ka- -an: a period of time
muri- -an: the way one is doing something; the way something was done
sa- -an: people doing things together
sa- -enan: people belonging to the same community
si- -an: nominalizer
Ca- -an, CVCV- -an: collectivity, plurality

Notes

^ Puyuma at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
^ Teng (2009), pp. 839, 841.
^ Zeitoun & Cauquelin (2006), p. 655.
^ ^a ^b Teng (2008), pp. 11, 18.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Cauquelin (2004), pp. 25–26.
^ Teng (2008), p. 112.
^ Cauquelin (1991), p. 27.
^ Teng (2008), pp. 61–64.
^ Possessor of subject
^ Teng (2008), pp. 282–285.

References

Cauquelin, Josiane (1991). Dictionnaire puyuma-français. Paris: Ecole Française d'Extreme-Orient. ISBN 9782855395517.
Cauquelin, Josiane (2004). Aborigines of Taiwan: The Puyuma – From Headhunting to the Modern World. London: RoutledgeCurzon. ISBN 9780203498590.
Teng, Stacy Fang-ching (2007). A Reference Grammar of Puyuma, an Austronesian Language of Taiwan (Ph.D. thesis). doi:10.25911/5D63C47EE2628. hdl:1885/147042.
Teng, Stacy Fang-ching (2008). A Reference Grammar of Puyuma, an Austronesian Language of Taiwan (PDF). Pacific Linguistics 595. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University. hdl:1885/28526. ISBN 9780858835870.
Teng, Stacy Fang-ching (2009). "Case Syncretism in Puyuma" (PDF). Languages and Linguistics. 10 (4): 819–844. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2018-11-11.
Ting, Pang-hsin (1978). "Reconstruction of Proto-Puyuma Phonology". Bulletin of the Institute of History and Philology. 49. Academia Sinica: 321–391. OCLC 4938029239. Archived from the original on 13 December 2014. Retrieved 5 December 2014.
Teng, Fang-ching 鄧芳青 (2018). Bēinányǔ yǔfǎ gàilùn 卑南語語法概論 [Introduction to Puyuma Grammar] (in Chinese). Xinbei shi: Yuanzhu minzu weiyuanhui. ISBN 978-986-05-5694-0 – via alilin.apc.gov.tw.

External links

Yuánzhùmínzú yǔyán xiànshàng cídiǎn 原住民族語言線上詞典 (in Chinese) – Puyuma search page at the "Aboriginal language online dictionary" website of the Indigenous Languages Research and Development Foundation
Puyuma teaching and leaning materials published by the Council of Indigenous Peoples of Taiwan (in Chinese)
Puyuma translation of President Tsai Ing-wen's 2016 apology to indigenous people – published on the website of the presidential office

[e18-1] Puyuma at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

[FOOTNOTETeng2009839,_841-2] Teng (2009), pp. 839, 841.

[FOOTNOTEZeitounCauquelin2006655-3] Zeitoun & Cauquelin (2006), p. 655.

[FOOTNOTETeng200811,_18-4] Teng (2008), pp. 11, 18.

[FOOTNOTECauquelin200425–26-5] Cauquelin (2004), pp. 25–26.

[FOOTNOTETeng2008112-6] Teng (2008), p. 112.

[FOOTNOTECauquelin199127-7] Cauquelin (1991), p. 27.

[FOOTNOTETeng200861–64-8] Teng (2008), pp. 61–64.

[9] Possessor of subject

[FOOTNOTETeng2008282–285-10] Teng (2008), pp. 282–285.

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