Kanakanavu people

Kanakanavu
卡那卡那富
Total population
~414 (March 2023[1])
Regions with significant populations
Taiwan
Languages
Kanakanavu, Bunun, Mandarin, Taiwanese Hokkien
Religion
Animism, Christianity (majority)[2]
Related ethnic groups
Tsou, Bunun, Saaroa, Taiwanese Aborigines

The Kanakanavu (Chinese: 卡那卡那富族; Wade–Giles: Kanakanavu) are an indigenous people of central southern Taiwan. They live in the two villages of Manga and Takanua in Namasia District, Kaohsiung City, Taiwan.[3]

  1. ^ "【2023年】3月原住民族人口數統計資料". 11 April 2023.
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  3. ^ Zeitoun, Elizabeth; Teng, Stacy F. (2014). The Position of Kanakanavu and Saaroa within the Formosan Languages Revisited (PDF). The 14th International Symposium on Chinese Languages and Linguistics (IsCLL-14), June 4–9, 2014. Academia Sinica, Taipei. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-06-06. Retrieved 2015-07-16.