Kulon language

{{short description|Northwest Formosan language of Taiwan}}

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{{Infobox language

| name = Kulon

| states = Taiwan

| region =

| ethnicity =

| extinct = ?

| ref =

| familycolor = Austronesian

| fam2 = Northwest Formosan

| iso3 = uon

| glotto = kulo1238

| glottorefname = Kulon

| map = Formosan languages.png

| mapcaption = (pink, northwest) Saisiyat, Pazeh and Kulon. Some Chinese-language sources designate the white area in the northwest as a Kulon area, as opposed to the small pink circle on this map.{{Cite web |date=2009-08-06 |title=Táiwān yuánzhùmín píngpǔ zúqún bǎinián fēnlèi shǐ xìliè dìtú |script-title=zh:臺灣原住民平埔族群百年分類史系列地圖 |trans-title=A History of the Classification of Plains Taiwanese Tribes Over the Past Century |url=http://blog.xuite.net/hqq.hqq/blog/25870376-%E8%87%BA%E7%81%A3%E5%8E%9F%E4%BD%8F%E6%B0%91%E5%B9%B3%E5%9F%94%E6%97%8F%E7%BE%A4%E7%99%BE%E5%B9%B4%E5%88%86%E9%A1%9E%E5%8F%B2%E7%B3%BB%E5%88%97%E5%9C%B0%E5%9C%96 |access-date=2017-03-04 |website=blog.xuite.net |language=zh}}

| notice = IPA

| altname = Kulun

}}

Kulon (occasionally rendered Kulun) is an extinct language of the Taiwanese aboriginal people that belonged to the Austronesian language family. Very little data is available for Kulon; the primary source is the 60 pages of Tsuchida (1985).Shigeru Tsuchida (1985) Kulon: Yet another Austronesian language in Taiwan? Bulletin of the Institute of Ethnology, 60: 1–59. Li (2008) follows Tsuchida in linking Kulon with Saisiyat,{{cite book |author-link=Paul Li |last=Li |first=Paul Jen-kuei |year=2008 |chapter=Time perspective of Formosan Aborigines |editor1-last=Sanchez-Mazas |editor1-first=Alicia |editor2-last=Blench |editor2-first=Roger |editor3-last=Ross |editor3-first=Malcolm D. |editor4-last=Peiros |editor4-first=Ilia |editor5-last=Lin |editor5-first=Marie |title=Past human migrations in East Asia: matching archaeology, linguistics and genetics |location=London |publisher=Routledge |pages=211–218 }} while Blust (1999) proposes it was more closely related to Pazeh.{{cite book |author-link=Robert Blust |surname=Blust|given=Robert|year=1999|chapter=Subgrouping, circularity and extinction: some issues in Austronesian comparative linguistics|editor1-surname=Zeitoun|editor1-given=E.|editor2-surname=Li|editor2-given=P.J.K|title=Selected papers from the Eighth International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics|pages=31–94|publisher=Academia Sinica|place=Taipei}}