Endangered and Extinct Formosan Languages

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Endangered and Extinct Formosan Languages

• Fig1 Distribution of Formosan languages

This project is salvage linguistics, working on a
few Formosan languages on the verge of extinction
and a few extinct Formosan languages for which
written documents are available. We investigated
the languages that still have a few older
speakers left Pazih, Thao, Kanakanavu, Saaroa
and Kavalan, and worked on the written documents
(including field notes by Japanese scholars) of
Siraya, Favorlang and Basay. It is essential for
maintaining the great diversity of Formosan
languages.
Principal Investigator Paul Li