Langenesis

Austronesian family

Paiwan

c. 1500 CE – today Living

Paiwan (c. 1500 CE – today) is a living Austronesian language. Lineage: Proto-Austronesian → Paiwan.

See Paiwan on the interactive map
ISO 639-3
pwn
Glottocode
paiw1248

Formosan language of southern Taiwan; sometimes treated as its own primary branch of Austronesian. Formosan languages form several primary branches of Austronesian; no Formosan subgroup is assumed. Start date is nominal (no pre-colonial written record).

Lineage

  1. Proto-Austronesianc. 3,500 BCE – 2,500 BCE
  2. Paiwanc. 1500 CE – today

Sister languages 3

Also descended from Proto-Austronesian.

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