<h1 class="title" style="margin:25px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:1.6em;font-family:arial,verdana,helvetica,geneva,sans-serif;line-height:31px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Linguist races to save Aboriginal language</h1>
<h3 class="a2" style="margin:0px 0px 15px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:0.93em;font-family:arial,verdana,helvetica,geneva,sans-serif;line-height:21px;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span class="a1" style="margin:0px 4px 0px 0px;padding:2px 4px 2px 0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-size:0.93em;font-family:inherit;color:rgb(255,0,0)">KANAKANAVU:</span>National Taiwan University’s Sung Li-may is working with the few remaining native speakers of one Aboriginal language to document it for preservation</h3>
<p style="margin:1em 0px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:15px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:21px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:arial,verdana,helvetica,geneva,sans-serif;font-size:0.8em">By Peter Enav  /  AP, DAKANUA</span></p>
<p style="margin:1em 0px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:15px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:21px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Her eyes lit bright with concentration, Taiwanese linguist Sung Li-may (宋麗梅) leans in expectantly as one of the planet’s last 10 speakers of the Kanakanavu language shares his hopes for the future.</p>
<p style="margin:1em 0px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:15px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:21px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">“I am already very old,” says 80-year-old Mu’u Ka’angena, a leathery-faced man with a tough, sinewy body and deeply veined hands.</p>
<p style="margin:1em 0px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:15px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:21px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">A light rain falls onto the thatched roof of the communal bamboo hut, and smoke from a dying fire drifts lazily up the walls, wafting over deer antlers, boar jawbones and ceremonial swords that decorate the interior like trophies from a forgotten time.</p>
<p style="margin:1em 0px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:15px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:21px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">“Every day I think: Can our language be passed down to the next generation? It is the deepest wish in my heart that it can be,” he says.</p>
<p style="margin:1em 0px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:15px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:21px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"></p><p style="margin:1em 0px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px">Access full article below: </p>
<div><a href="http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2013/01/10/2003552202">http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2013/01/10/2003552202</a></div><p></p>