The Pacific region - which includes Japan, Taiwan (China), the Philippines, Insular Malaysia, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, New Caledonia, Fiji, Micronesia, Polynesia and Australia - contains more than 2,000 living languages, a third of the world total. Papua New Guinea alone counts at least 820, a world record for linguistic density. The Atlas says the region's languages are generally alive and well. But Australia, New Caledonia and Taiwan are three crisis areas, it says. Of the 23 local languages in Taiwan, 14 are yielding to the pressures of Chinese.

Chit-e lai-te go tek-piat kong si goan-chu-bin e gi-gian, lan ai an-choaN lai
kai-thok choe-au chit ku oe?  Chinese, si chi Mandarin iah-si pau-koah Holo,
Hakka? Kam kong Holo Hakka ma tui ki-thaN goan-chu-bin ki cho-seng ui-hiap? 
Holo kap Hakka kam m-si local languages?

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On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 17:54:56 -0400, H. Tan-Tenn wrote
> Chit phiN
> 
> <http://www.taiwandaily.com.tw/news.php?news_id=27239>
> 
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> Kam u lang chai-iaN goan-su bun-kiaN ti to-ui, an-choaN sia--e?  Goa
> kan-na u-hoat-tou cheng-sit UNESCO u kong-tioh Tai-oan Lam-to gi-
> gian e gui-ki (khoaN e-kha hit phiN).
> 
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: [TGB] UNESCO kong Tai-oan
> Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2004 14:41:40 +0800
> From: 



H. Tan-Tenn
> To: Taigu (Taiwanese Net) 
> 
> In 02-ni e sin-bun-ko jin-ui, "Tai-oan e 23-e te-hng gi-gian u 14-e 
> ju lai ju siu-tioh Han-gi/Hoa-gi [Chinese] e ap-lek".
> 
> <http://www.unesco.org/education/imld_2002/press.shtml>
> 
> "...The Pacific region - which includes Japan, Taiwan (China), the
> Philippines, Insular Malaysia, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon
> Islands, Vanuatu, New Caledonia, Fiji, Micronesia, Polynesia and
> Australia - contains more than 2,000 living languages, a third of the
> world total. Papua New Guinea alone counts at least 820, a world record
> for linguistic density. The Atlas says the region's languages are
> generally alive and well. But Australia, New Caledonia and Taiwan are
> three crisis areas, it says. Of the 23 local languages in Taiwan, 14 
> are yielding to the pressures of Chinese. In New Caledonia, French 
> has had a "devastating influence" and two thirds of the 60,000 
> indigenous people there have forgotten their mother tongue. In 
> Australia, where Aborigines were forbidden to speak their 400 or so 
> languages until the 1970s, a record number have recently disappeared 
> or are in danger. Only about 25 Aboriginal languages are still 
> commonly spoken...."
> 
> -- 
> Wikipedia, Ho-lo-oe e in-sai-kong-bih-ti-hia!
> <http://minnan.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Randompage>
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