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Sep 19, 2020 · During a 2020 municipal indigenous speech contest in Southern Taiwan, we interviewed a student from the Paiwan tribe who agreed to share a little of her nati...
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This volume contains papers describing and discussing language change in the Austronesian languages of eastern Indonesia and Taiwan. The issues discussed include the unusual development of verbal infixes in the Cendrawasih Bay languages, dialect variations, patterns of borrowing and language contact in Taiwan and in Flores-Alor-Pantar languages of Indonesia, diachronic and synchronic aspects ...
May 6, 2019 · The first idea is the claim that MP languages are relatively monolithic and homogeneous, especially when compared to the “substantial heterogeneity” of Austronesian languages within Taiwan (Bellwood, 2017, 188), so that they have “a common core” (Pereltsvaig, 2012, 146) where they share much vocabulary and many grammatical features.
Aug 19, 2014 · The history of the Austronesian (AN) expansion and of populations speaking AN languages has long been of interest. Patterns of lexical diversity within the AN language family point to Taiwan as ...
Nov 29, 2017 · Austronesian linguistics is the linguistic study of languages belonging to the Austronesian language family. The more than 1,200 Austronesian languages occupy a vast area. Traditionally, they are spoken in the Pacific in the area bounded by Hawaii in the northeast, Taiwan in the northwest, Easter Island in the southeast, New Zealand in the ...
The Formosan languages are spoken by approximately 200,000 people in Taiwan (“Austronesian Languages”). The Eastern Malayo-Polynesian languages are comprised of the Micronesian languages, some Melanesian languages, and the closely related languages of Polynesia, (ie: Hawaiian, Tahitian, and Maori).
Dec 13, 2020 · During the 2020 National Indigenous Speech Competition in Nantou County, Taiwan, we interviewed a student from the Saisiyat tribe, who agreed to share a litt...
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