Introduction to Indigenous Languages of Taiwan

Introduction to Kavalan, Taruku, Atayal, Saisiyat, Seediq, Thao, Bunun, Amis, Tsou, Kanakanavu, Saaroa, Rukai, Puyuma, Yami with example sentence from Thao.

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Education

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• Kavalan
• Taruku
• Atayal
• Saisiyat
• Seediq
• Thao
• Bunun
• Amis
• Tsou
• Kanakanavu
• Saaroa
• Rukai
• Puyuma
• Yami
• indigenous languages
• aborigines
• Taiwan languages

[uphamtimothy]

Peru just passed a law, in which all government documents are to be in all 80 indigenous languages spoken in Peru. Does Taiwan have a similar law? If not, it should pass one. Taiwan is a democracy, it can freely recognize its distinct cultural heritage. There is more to Taiwan than Chang-kai-shek. Realize that it heroes can be descendants of headhunters.

[Glossika]

@uphamtimothy That's great for Peru, but can you imagine the translation costs on the government? Even Europe complains over the translation cost for "23" languages. But then again, Europeans demand sky-high prices for such services. It might just create jobs in Peru. I've already learned several of the Taiwanese languages: Saisiyat, Atayal, Amis, Thao, Seediq, and Bunun. Actually, there's a "headhunter" hero movie now called Seediq Bale, the trailer's on YouTube. It was a really big seller here

[ThisIsTaiwan]

Las lenguas de los nativos de Taiwan no solo pertenecen a la familia de lenguas austronesicas sino que dicha familia origino en la isla de Taiwan. Asi que las lenguas de Taiwan tienen relacion con la lengua de Indonesia/filipinas y todas las demas del mundo austronesico.

[Glossika]

@ThisIsTaiwan Aunque lo dije en el video, esta teoría aún no se puede probar (que son origino en la isla de Taiwán).

[koolibrii]

Vaya, parece como si esos pueblos indígenas no se pudieran entender entre sí si no usan el chino.

¿Tiene alguna de esas lenguas algo que ver con el tagalo de Filipinas?

[Glossika]

Precisamente. Sí, estas lenguas pertenecen a la familia de lenguas austronésicas, es igual que las lenguas de las Filipinas (y Indonesia, y muchos países del Pacífico).

[uphamtimothy]

Muhuway su -- Atayal for Thank you. Uninang -- Bunun for Thank you.

[uphamtimothy]

I saw the movie trailer, it was great. I never heard of the film before. The motion picture industry is now serving as a wonderful tool for preserving indigenous stories and languages. Have you seen films such as "Pathfinder," about the Sami, "Ten Canoes," about the Australian Aborigines, "Fast Runner," about the Inuit. Ninety-nine percent of all the endangered languages in the world, are languages of indigenous people. So the Taiwanese languages you know are all endangered.

[Just4Kixs]

haha Me alegro mucho. Good practice for me in the IPA (still in my intro to linguistics course.)

Thanks for this vid nevertheless. It's still sad to see langauges die, which is why I really want to help.

[Glossika]

@Asvaghosa This video happened to be filmed in English. If you don't like to listen to English, that's easy! Watch a different video!

[Asvaghosa]

you can really pronunce r's conronal trills, or perhaps have to