CIP reports 5 indigenous languages in peril (fwd link)

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CIP reports 5 indigenous languages in peril
[image: CIP reports 5 indigenous languages in peril]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)

   - Publication Date：12/19/2012
   - Source： Taiwan Today <http://taiwantoday.tw/>

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.

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.

The CIP began the first stage of a three-year study of indigenous
Austronesian languages in February, spending 10 months investigating these
five languages.

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http://www.taiwantoday.tw/ct.asp?xItem=199911&ctNode=445
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