Pazeh Language

Pazeh Language

Pazeh (also spelled Pazih) is the language of the Pazeh, a Taiwanese aboriginal people. It is a Formosan language of the Austronesian languages language family. Kulun was a dialect. There was only one remaining native speaker of Pazeh proper, 96-year-old Pan Jin-yu. Since her death, however, the language is extinct. Pan Jin-yu offered Pazeh classes to about 200 regular students in Puli and there were also a small number of students in Miaoli and Taichung.

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