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<h1 class="gmail-article-title">New law set to promote cultural diversity within Taiwan</h1> <h4 class="gmail-subtilte">National Language Development Plan approved in Executive Yuan and is sent to the Legislature for approval</h4> <div class="gmail-up_share">
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<div class="gmail-article-author"><span>By </span><a href="https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/search?keyword=Renée Salmonsen">Renée Salmonsen</a>,Taiwan News, Staff Writer
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<div class="gmail-article-date">2018/01/05 11:57</div>
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<p>The Culture Minister anticipates the completion of the Language Policy. (Photo from Chen Li-chun's Facebook) </p> </div> </div> </div> </div>
</section><span><p>TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — Yesterday the
Executive Yuan passed the National Language Development Plan onto the
Legislative Yuan for final approval, reported Kairos, which is designed
to promote cultural diversity and preserve different native languages
within Taiwan. </p>
<p>Premier William Lai (賴清德) <a href="https://kairos.news/95533">stated</a>
that the Language Plan safeguards the civil rights of citizens to use
the language of their choosing, particularly aboriginal languages,
Hakka dialects, and Taiwanese.</p>
<p>The Ministry of Culture hopes to use the Language Plan as precedent
to create the Taiwanese language channel, and has begun talks with
Taiwan Broadcasting System about the plan. </p>
<p>The Culture Minister, Cheng Li-chiun (鄭麗君), said that the government
has already allocated room in the budget to create a Taiwanese language
TV channel. The potential new channel would add to the ranks of Taiwan
Indigenous Television and Hakka TV.</p>
<p>The Language Plan was first drafted in 2007 and then redrafted in 2017.</p>
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</article></section></div></div><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature">=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+<br><br> Harold F. Schiffman<br><br>Professor Emeritus of <br> Dravidian Linguistics and Culture <br>Dept. of South Asia Studies <br>University of Pennsylvania<br>Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305<br><br>Phone: (215) 898-7475<br>Fax: (215) 573-2138 <br><br>Email: <a href="mailto:haroldfs@gmail.com" target="_blank">haroldfs@gmail.com</a><br><a href="http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/" target="_blank">http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/</a> <br><br>-------------------------------------------------</div>
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