Babuza language

Babuza is a Formosan language of the Babuza and Taokas, indigenous peoples of Taiwan. It is related to or perhaps descended from Favorlang, attested from the 17th century.

Babuza
Native to	Taiwan
Ethnicity	35 Babuza, Taokas (date missing)[1]
Extinct	(date missing)[1]
Language family	Austronesian Northern Formosan Western Plains Babuza
Early form	Favorlang?
Dialects	Poavosa Taokas (extinct)
Language codes
ISO 639-3	bzg (with Favorlang)
Glottolog	babu1240
(orange) The Babuza, Papora-Hoanya, and Thao languages

Babuza was once spoken along much of the western coast of Taiwan. Its two rather divergent dialects, Poavosa and the extinct Taokas, were separated by Papora and Pazeh.

The first commercial publication to be written in Taokas is the picture book Osubalaki, Balalong Ramut, published in 2020.[2]

See also

• Favorlang language

References

1. Babuza at Ethnologue (19th ed., 2016)
2. Han, Cheung (1 July 2020). "Reviving a language on the page". Taipei Times. Retrieved 1 July 2020.

Resources

Dictionary

• Happart, Gilbertus (1840) [1650]. Dictionary of the Favorlang dialect of the Formosan language. Medhurst, W. H. Batavia.