<h3 style="margin:10px;padding:0px;border:none;outline:0px;color:rgb(204,51,0);font-size:17px;line-height:22px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;text-align:left;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">CIP reports 5 indigenous languages in peril</h3>
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<img src="http://www.taiwantoday.tw/public/data/2121916162771.jpg" alt="CIP reports 5 indigenous languages in peril" title="CIP reports 5 indigenous languages in peril" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(153, 153, 153); outline: 0px; width: 240px; "><span style="margin:0px;padding:5px 0px 0px;border:none;outline:0px;display:block;width:240px;font-size:12px;color:rgb(25,25,112)">The language of the Thao, who live mainly in central Taiwan’s Nantou County, is one of the indigenous tongues in need of greater revitalization efforts. (CNA)</span></div>
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<li style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:none;outline:0px;list-style:disc">Publication Date：<span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:none;outline:0px">12/19/2012</span></li><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:none;outline:0px;list-style:disc">
Source： <a target="_nwgip" href="http://taiwantoday.tw/" title="Taiwan Today" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:none;outline:0px;color:rgb(0,104,183)">Taiwan Today</a></li></ul><p style="margin:10px;padding:0px;border:none;outline:0px;font-size:13px;color:rgb(102,102,102);text-align:justify;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
</p><p style="margin:10px;padding:0px;border:none;outline:0px;font-size:13px;color:rgb(102,102,102);text-align:justify;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Mandarin and Taiwan Southern Min have largely supplanted five aboriginal languages in daily use, according to a survey released by the ROC Council of Indigenous Peoples Dec. 18.</p>
<p style="margin:10px;padding:0px;border:none;outline:0px;font-size:13px;color:rgb(102,102,102);text-align:justify;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Thao, Kavalan, Tsou, Kanakanavu and Saaroa are used less than 40 percent of the time in most conversational situations, the report said, and contexts for use of the mother tongue are seriously lacking. Literacy skills are also not as good as speaking and listening abilities.</p>
<p style="margin:10px;padding:0px;border:none;outline:0px;font-size:13px;color:rgb(102,102,102);text-align:justify;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">The CIP began the first stage of a three-year study of indigenous Austronesian languages in February, spending 10 months investigating these five languages.</p>
<p style="margin:10px;padding:0px;border:none;outline:0px;font-size:13px;color:rgb(102,102,102);text-align:justify;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Access full article below: </p>
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