Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The Taiwanese indigenous languages or Formosan languages are the languages of the Taiwanese indigenous peoples. Taiwanese aborigines currently comprise about 2.3% of the island's population. [ 10 ] However, far fewer can still speak their ancestral language after centuries of language shift .
All Formosan languages are slowly being replaced by the culturally dominant Taiwanese Mandarin. In recent decades the Taiwan government started an aboriginal reappreciation program that included the reintroduction of Formosan first languages in Taiwanese schools. However, the results of this initiative have been disappointing.
The complexity and scope of aboriginal assimilation and acculturation on Taiwan has led to three general narratives of Taiwanese ethnic change. The oldest holds that Han migration from Fujian and Guangdong in the 17th century pushed the Plains indigenous peoples into the mountains, where they became the Highland peoples of today. [ 61 ]
The Council of Indigenous Peoples has supported efforts to protect and revitalize the languages spoken by Taiwanese indigenous peoples. In 2001, the Council commissioned the first proficiency tests for indigenous languages in Taiwan. [31] In 2005, the council established a romanized writing system for all Taiwanese indigenous languages. [32]
Families of Formosan languages before Chinese colonization, per Blust. [1] Malayo-Polynesian (red) may lie within Eastern Formosan (purple). Note that the white section in the northwest of the country does not indicate a complete absence of aboriginal people from that part of Taiwan.
The Bunun (Bunun: Bunun), also historically known as the Vonum, [1] are a Taiwanese indigenous people. They speak the Bunun language. Unlike other aboriginal peoples in Taiwan, the Bunun are widely dispersed across the island's central mountain ranges. In the year 2000, the Bunun numbered 41,038.
According to Taiwanese Aboriginal History: Amis, the Amis are classified into five groups: Northern group (located on the Chihlai/Hualien Plain) Middle group (located west of the Hai'an Range) Coastal group (located east of the Hai'an Range) Falangaw group (located Chenggong and the Taitung Plain) Hengchun group (located on the Hengchun Peninsula)
Taiwanese Hakka is a language group consisting of Hakka dialects spoken in Taiwan, and mainly used by people of Hakka ancestry. Taiwanese Hakka is divided into five main dialects: Sixian, Hailu, Dabu, Raoping, and Zhao'an. [5] The most widely spoken of the five Hakka dialects in Taiwan are Sixian and Hailu. [6]