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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...."



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