Kanakanavu is a Southern Tsouic language spoken in the villages of Manga and Takanua in Namasia District (那瑪夏區) of Kaohsiung (高雄) in southern Taiwan. In 2014 there were just six fluent speakers of Kanakanavu, all of whom were over 60 years old. A few other people have some knowl...
To the best of our knowledge, this is by far the first phonetic study on Kanakanavu, an endangered Austronesian language spoken in southern Taiwan. A disyllabic word pair only differs in stress position was recorded from four native speakers. Tone type and corresponding acoustic correlates were ...
https://www2.uni-erfurt.de/sprachwissenschaft/Vgl_SW/kanakanavu/language-documentation/s-tsuchida-2003-story-3.html Tsuchida, Shigeru. (2003). Kanakanavu texts (Austronesian Formosan). (Endangered Languages of the Pacific Rim Publications Series, A3-014.) Osaka: ELPR. Sound recording of story...
This study covers two issues: (1) the language shift process relating to two highly endangered aboriginal languages of Taiwan and (2) the correlations between some variables and their language shift. Both Kanakanavu and Saaroa peoples underwent two waves of migration: (1) a massive in-...
This study covers two issues: (1) the language shiDorinda Tsai-Hsiu LiuYing-Hwa ChangPaul Jen-Kuei LiJi-Ping LinJournal of multilingual & multicultural developmentLi, P, C.S Liu, I.H. Chang, and J.P. Lin. 2015. "Language shift of Taiwan's indigenous peoples: a case study of Kana...