[EDLING:110] Taiwan: Plan mulled to revitalize indigenous language

[Francis M. Hult]

China Post

Plan mulled to revitalize indigenous language

The government is planning to launch a six-year indigenous language 
revitalization plan aimed at conserving and revitalizing dying aboriginal 
mother tongues, the Council of Indigenous People (CIP) reported yesterday. 
Under the language revitalization plan, expected to kick off next year, efforts 
will be made to help convert indigenous people's verbal languages to written 
texts, said Wang Chiou-i, chief of the CIP Education and Culture Department. 

Wang said it would take immense government resources to collect and preserve 
the indigenous mother tongues, some of which are on the brink of extinction, 
before transforming them into dictionaries or digital archives. 

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