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		LANGUAGE TAGS - OBSOLETE - per [RFC4646] (last updated 2006-09-27) In "Tags for the Identification of Languages" [BCP47,RFC3066] there is a provision for listing unique "tags" or names for languages and variants of languages.
		[RFC3066] Alvestrand, H., "Tags for the Identification of Languages", [BCP47] RFC 3066, BCP 47, January 2001.
		[RFC4646] A. Phillips and M. Davis, "Tags for Identifying Languages", RFC 4646, September 2006.
	www.iana.org /assignments/language-tags (105 words)

	Asia Pacific Linguistics Research - RSPAS - ANU
		A grammar of the northern dialect of Sakao, a Melanesian language of Espiritu Santo (New Hebrides).
		Verbal syntax and morphology of the Chepang Language of Nepal.
		A grammar of the Lavukaleve language of Russell Is., Solomons Is.
	rspas.anu.edu.au /linguistics/students.php (631 words)

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		Their language is apparently not closely related to any of the other indigenous languages on Taiwan.
		The Paiwan are concentrated in Pingtung County while the Rukai mostly live on the eastern and western sides of the Central Mountain Range in southern Taiwan.
		Past Paiwan and Rukai communities were composed of noble families, the commoners, and tenant farmers, but inter-class marriages were allowed.
	members.tripod.com /kelly_yunya/pages/people.htm (2140 words)

	Taiwanese aborigine
		They are a group of Austronesian people, who are descended from the inhabitants of Taiwan who lived on the island before Han immigration in the 1600s.
		Today, most tribes that the R.O.C. recognizes are concentrated in the highland mountains of Taiwan and speak the a linguistic grouping of archaic Formosan languages, which belong to the Austronesian (Malayo-Polynesian) language family.
		It is believed the Austronesian language and culture originated on Taiwan roughly 6000 years ago due to a lengthy split from its root in southern Asia.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ta/Taiwanese_aborigines.html (3832 words)

	Preserving Taiwan's Indigenous Languages and Cultures (Feng-fu Tsao)
		Based on an island-wide telephone survey of 934 subjects conducted by the Formosa Cultural and Educational Foundation, the relationship between the proportion of subjects claiming to be of Hakka ethnic group, and that of subjects claiming to have Hakka as their mother tongue, plotted across three age groups, is shown in Table 1.
		As we briefly mentioned earlier, the erosion of the indigenous languages and cultures is due to compounding effect of two forces: the improper propagation of the national language and the global expansion of LWCs.
		Many indigenous languages speakers were informed by their teachers that their languages were base and vulgar and that they should feel ashamed for being speakers of such languages.
	www2.kokugakuin.ac.jp /ijcc/wp/global/07tsao.html (3302 words)

	The Language Teacher Online: Tsao, June 2001
		A description of the role of language in the education system of any country is complicated by the number of languages involved, the different purpose for which they are used, and the levels at which they are introduced.
		Language may be used for three purposes in education: for the development of literacy, as a subject of study, or as a medium of instruction.
		It is taught to everybody, regardless of his or her mother tongue or home language, as a language for literacy.
	www.jalt-publications.org /tlt/articles/2001/06/tsao (2251 words)

	People and Language
		Although the younger generations of indigenous peoples are not as fluent in their ancestral language as the older generations, they have managed to preserve many of their traditional rituals and festivities.
		The Austronesian languages are spoken by the indigenous peoples, but are slowly disappearing with cultural assimilation among the inhabitants of Taiwan.
		One of the reasons is that some sounds, though originating from the Han language, have changed so dramatically over time that their corresponding characters can no longer be traced or have a written form that has since become rare.
	www.gio.gov.tw /taiwan-website/5-gp/yearbook/2003/chpt02.htm (4600 words)

	Celebrating 93rd Double Tenth National Day - Republic of China(Taiwan) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		A movement was initiated to teach students their mother tongue and to preserve the languages and dialects of smaller ethnic groups.
		The Ministry of Education (MOE) is currently drafting a language equality law aimed at preserving the 14 major languages and dialects spoken in Taiwan: Mandarin, Taiwanese, Hakka, and indigenous languages.
		It also implemented the Scheme of Aboriginal Language Networks in July 2001 to facilitate the establishment of a network of tutors and parents, so that the best approaches and curricula for each particular group could be developed.
	www.bruneidirect.com /New_bizcentre/BR/new_clients/taiwan/people_language.html (4463 words)

	Austronesian languages Summary
		The Austronesian languages are a language family widely dispersed throughout the islands of Southeast Asia and the Pacific (with a few members spoken on continental Asia).
		Austronesian is one of the largest language families in the world, both in terms of number of languages (1268 according to Ethnologue) and in terms of the geographical extent of the homelands of its languages (from Madagascar to Easter Island).
		The internal structure of the Austronesian languages is difficult to work out, as the family consists of many very similar and very closely related languages with large numbers of dialect continua, making it difficult to recognize boundaries between branches.
	www.bookrags.com /Austronesian_languages (1991 words)

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		The Hawaiian language is an Austronesian language that takes its name from that of the largest island in the tropical North Pacific archipelago where it developed.
		It is closely related to other Polynesian languages (e.g., Marquesan, Tahitian, Maori, Rapa Nui (the language of Easter Island), Samoan), distantly related to Fijian, and more distantly to Malay, Indonesian, Malagasy, and the indigenous languages of the Philippines (e.g., Pangasinan, Tagalog, Ilokano, Visayan) and Taiwan (e.g., Paiwan, Rukai, Thao, Babuza, Saaroa, Yami).
		Going back farther in time and space, the language is that of the Philippine Islands, and it is ultimately descended from an ancient Austronesian language spoken in Taiwan about 6000 years ago.
	www.happydogsclup.com /sdmc_Hawaiian_language (4845 words)

	Valiant, Etc. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Galego is a language spoken in the northwestern of Spain, in the region known as Galicia.
		A Sino-Tibetan language spoken in the north of Myanmar and in Yunnan in China.
		The Ladin language is a language of raetoromanian origin, and spoken in parts of Trentino-Alto Adige.
	valetc.com /links.php?/Test/World/desc.html (8451 words)

	UHMTueSemF2003
		The first goal of this undertaking was to prepare grammars and dictionaries of these languages, the second was to train Micronesian educators in the principles and practices of bilingual education, and the third was to develop vernacular materials for use in Micronesian schools.
		It is clear that language is a universal behavioral trait of the human species with both biological and cultural bases.
		Isochronous distribution of these units in a language has been challenged for several decades; however, the temporal dimension of speech prosody can be measured in phonetic terms as duration.
	www.ling.hawaii.edu /UHMTueSem/TuesdayS2004/UHMTueSemS2004.html (2820 words)

	Taiwan Church News 2838　17-24 July 2006 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Because Mandarin Chinese has become their language of primary communication, many young Aborigines in Taiwan have lost the ability to use their mother tongues, placing the continued existence of these languages at risk.
		They were able to use Paiwan language to sing traditional songs and offer an anthem in church.
		Paiwan education in his village will not cease with the conclusion of the summer “language nest” activity.
	www.pct.org.tw /english/2006news/new_2838.htm (339 words)

	Languages : Malayo-Polynesian Family
		Although covering a large geographical area, the languages are remarkably uniform in structure.
		It was the language of a pre-Vietnamese Hindu Chamba Empire.
		The speakers of this language family are thought to have originated in southern China (the Yellow River valleys) and migrated via Taiwan into the islands of the Philippines (about 2500BC), Indonesia and out into the Pacific (about 1000BC).
	www.krysstal.com /langfams_malayo.html (465 words)

	Elusive Butterfly (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Stanford linguist, Joseph Greenberg, for example, notes that many languages have a form dik, dig, or tik that refers either to the number "one" or to the index finger, suggesting a bodily origin for words for numbers (the English term being "digit").
		The use of metaphor is also a universal process in language, both in the coinage of words as in the construction of discourse.
		Although the terms for individual species of animals or plants, and for specific geographic features may be language specific, the generic terms for the categories are widely borrowed between language.
	www.trismegistos.com /IconicityInLanguage/Articles/Beeman.html (1649 words)

	Paiwan Language Term Papers, Essay Research Paper Help, Essays on Paiwan Language
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	Language
		Extracurricular Atayal ®õ¶® language lessons made their debut in 1990 at Taipei County's Wulai ¯Q¨Ó elementary and junior high schools, where the majority of students are Atayal aborigines.
		Some were not very fluent in their ancestral language, and had to learn it themselves as they went along.
		Some parents worry that instruction time spent gaining competence in a chosen Chinese dialect or aboriginal language might negatively affect a student's ability to compose in standard written Chinese (see section on the Written Language), and possibly result in lower scores on college entrance exams.
	www.gio.gov.tw /taiwan-website/5-gp/yearbook/2001/chpt03-4.htm (2005 words)

	News Article - ATAYAL - The worldwide voice of the aboriginal tribes of Taiwan
		The father who would not teach him his mother tongue has now become his helper in recapturing a tribal identity and is the subject of Ina-vali, an account of how Sakinu learned the hunting lore from which he derives his wider philosophy.
		He believes that it is this training as a hunter that has made his current achievements possible, for a hunter must have courage, self-assurance and judgment, things that he does not believe the Chinese education system gives to Aboriginal children.
		And for the Paiwan, hunting is part of that way of life -- even as it flies in the face of restrictive government policies that pay little heed to tribal tradition and the belief in Aboriginal lore of living in harmony with the environment.
	www.atayal.org /NewsView.asp?catID=25 (1352 words)

	Paiwan people - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Paiwan (排灣) are an aboriginal tribe of Taiwan.
		In the year 2000 the Paiwan numbered 70,331.
		The Masaru is a ceremony that celebrates the harvest of rice, whereas the Maleveq commemorates their ancestors or gods.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Paiwan (137 words)

	Tagalog language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Tagalog, as its standardized counterpart, Filipino, is the principal language of the national media in the Philippines.
		It is closely related to the languages spoken in the Bicol and Visayas regions such as Bikol, Hiligaynon, Waray-Waray, and Cebuano.
		Languages that have made significant contributions to Tagalog are Spanish, Min Nan Chinese, English, Malay, Sanskrit (via Malay), Arabic (via Malay/Spanish), and Northern Philippine languages such as Kapampangan spoken on the island of Luzon.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tagalog_language (2971 words)

	Taiwan's Indigenous Peoples
		Due to the number and diversity of indigenous languages in Taiwan, some scholars have suggested recently that Taiwan might be the origin of Austronesian people's diaspora beginning several thousand years ago.
		Despite considerable penetration by Western and Han religions into tribal areas, the high priestess of the tribe is still responsible for predicting good or inauspicious omens, and drawing on spiritual powers to perform a ceremony at the end of the grieving period.
		The Paiwan also believe that their ancestral spirits, dwelling on Dawu Mountain, descend every five years to pay a visit to their descendents throughout southern Taiwan.
	www.taiwan.com.au /Soccul/People/Compos/200508b.html (1760 words)

	The U of MT -- Mansfield Library LangFing Malayan, pt. 2
		You have reached the second page of Malayan and Formosan Languages, which is just one part of the "Language Finger" homepage, which is an index by language to the holdings of the Mansfield Library of The University of Montana.
		The Formosan languages belong to the Austronesian branch of the Austric family of languages.
		Malagasy is spoken in Madagascar and in the Comoro Islands (north of Madagascar).
	www.lib.umt.edu /guide/lang/malayn2h.htm (1403 words)

	China Source
		Their language belongs to the Indonesian language group of the Malay/Polynesian language family and has a total of 22 languages divided into many branches.
		The houses of both the Paiwan and Lukai have elaborate decorations on the pillars, beams, rafters and lintels of both doors and windows.
		The image of the ancestor is the prominent motif on the pillars, and some images clearly show the male and female sex organs.
	www.chsource.org /Gaoshan.htm (410 words)

	The Language - ATAYAL - The worldwide voice of the aboriginal tribes of Taiwan
		The aborigines of Taiwan speak languages belonging to the Austronesian language family.
		The Austronesian languages are among the most widely distributed of the world's language families: The area inhabited by Austronesian peoples extends from Madagascar in the west to Easter Island in the east; and from Taiwan in the north to New Zealand in the south.
		Although the "aboriginal" tribes still preserve their languages, customs, and village social structure, they are now facing the impact of rapid modernization.
	www.atayal.org /Language.asp (142 words)

	languagehat.com: BUTTERFLY.
		However, there is a limited, but powerful countervailing tendency in language behavior—words that absolutely resist borrowing even from their closest linguistic relatives.
		This leads into his main point, the often-observed fact that most languages, even closely related ones, have entirely different words for 'butterfly.' He then lists all those he has collected, which is what makes the page worth linking to.
		They speak a Semitic language related to the Amharic of the highlands, but unlike the Amharas, they are Muslims and use the Arabic alphabet.
	www.languagehat.com /archives/000932.php (1587 words)

	NATIONAL TAX ADMINISTRATION OF SOUTHERN TAIWAN
		Most Paiwan people are living in a way almost the same as their ancestors in Sandimen, Majia, Taiwu, Laiyi, Cunrih, Shihtze, Mudan and Manchou townships ion Pingtung County; Daren, Dawu, Jingfeng and Taimali in Taitung County; and Sinyuanli in Taitung City; except those who have moved to the city.
		The millet culture in Paiwan language is known as masuvigu.
		In the past, Paiwan people used to calculate one's age by counting the number of masalut he had passed, suggesting the importance of masalut to Paiwan people.
	www.ntas.gov.tw /county/ntas_h/english/rs_chaojhou.jsp (1718 words)

	Taiwan - People
		The Paiwan is unique for its worshipping of the 'hundred-pacer' snake.
		It is believed that the snake (named so because of its deadly capabilities) can kill its victims before they can run 100 steps.
		Paiwans are experts in wood-carving, making totems, doors, eaves, beams, smoking pipes, and other showpieces.
	www.marimari.com /content/taiwan/general_info/people/people.html (747 words)

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		Here you can listen to a recording in a language you know and then listen to the same recording in a language that you want to learn.
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