五種排灣方言的初步比較

A PRELIMINARY COMPARATIVE STUDY OF FIVE PAIWAN DIALECTS

排灣族是臺灣山地族之一，分布在臺灣省南部屏東、臺東兩縣的山地；人口約有四萬四千餘人。以人口數目來講，排灣族在臺灣各山地族中，是僅次於阿美族的第二大族。作者對排灣族的語言調查，始於民國六十四年三月。三年多來，陸續記錄了九種排灣方言。

Butanglu, Tjuabar, Tjavuali, Paiwan and Stimul are five dialects of the Paiwan language, an Austronesian language in Taiwan. This paper is a comparative study of these five dialects, exploring (1) the phonemic system and forms of Proto-Paiwan (Section 3), (2) the genetic relationships of these dialects (Section 5), and (3) the historical derivations from Prato-Austronesian (PAN) to Proto-Paiwan (Section 6). It is evident that these five dialects could be divided into two groups. One is Northwestern group (or dental-group), including Paiwan and Stimul. The other is Southeastern group (or palatal-group), including Butanglu, Tjuabar and Tjavuali.