Learnt about the #Siraya language revitalisation efforts, with Onini choir performance. #Austronesian
Siraya was the first Formosan language to be written down. Dutch documentation 400 years ago played a vital role in their language revitalisation project. There are now Siraya-speaking children again.
Oldest attestation of Austronesian language: Đông Yên Châu inscription
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%90%C3%B4ng_Y%C3%AAn_Ch%C3%A2u_inscription
#HackerNews #Oldest #Language #Discovery #Austronesian #Inscription #Archaeology #Linguistics
While I do not have any #tattoos myself, I do respect the #tradition behind it in #Polynesian and #Austronesian cultures. And it's great to see that the old art of tapping #ink under the skin outlawed as uncivilized in the Japanese era is still alive in #Taitung thanks to indigenous #Paiwan tattoo artist Cudjuy Padjidres (does that name sound Chinese to you?). #Pacific #Taiwan #TaiwanisnotChina
This is just another obvlous attempt to control and sinicize everything, even history more than 8,000 years ago.
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It's not a 'battleground' when one side whines and everyone else sticks to the facts.
The ancestors of the Austronesians may have originated from the Asian mainland more than 8,000 years ago - before Austronesian languages and cultures developed in Taiwan - but it's just ridiculous to speak of a 'Chinese nation' and a 'Chinese civilisation' when neither existed at the time.
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If you want a nice little #linguistics video about my native language #Tagalog, here's a well-explained intro to the #Austronesian alignment aka symmetric voice: https://youtube.com/shorts/MF_1Di6Hy3k
And if you combine this with tenses, Tagalog and other Austronesian languages are probably up there among #languages that have the most ways of conjugating verbs.
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