Qupata

General information
Qupat, also known as Kupat [qχu.pat], is the sacred language of the Qupasan tribe, inhabiting the land borders of the Taiwanese peninsula and also some parts of the Philippines. It is an agglutinative language which uses Austronesian alignment, aspect-trigger-voice-mood relations and direct-inverse alignment in nouns.

Inspiration
When I made that language, it was inspired by these five language families:


 * Austronesian (e.g. Indonesian, Tagalog, Paiwan)
 * Austroasiatic (e.g. Vietnamese, Nicobarese languages)
 * Bantu (e.g. Swahili, Zulu, Xitsonga)
 * Tibeto-Burman (e.g. Tibetan, Burmese)
 * Tai-Kaidai (e.g. Thai, Lao, Khmer)

The Qupasan tribe
The word 'Qupat' is derived from the Tagalog word 'gubat', meaning forest. The name of the people (which are called Qupasan), mostly live in forests or taigas. The Qupasan tribe were found in 1746 in Taiwan, when a sudden shortage of food changed some of the people's lives.