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Welcome to P&S- Preserve & Share. This site is all about endangered languages and field linguists’ adventures.

歡迎您來到P&S – Preserve & Share. 這邊你可以找到很多關於瀕危語言的文章還有一些語言學家的田野調查歷險記!

This map marks the languages we have so far.

以下的地圖標記著我們目前有介紹的語言。

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A short introduction of Yami — Origin myths

An origin myth is a  shared memory among the members of an ethnic group, and it is used as one of the criteria for people to recognize their comrades*¹. However, the origin myths of Tao people are highly diversified among six villages on Lanyu Island....

A short introduction of Yami – Language classification

Tao language, also known as “Yami language”  (Glottolog code: yami1254), is the only language among Taiwan aboriginal languages that is not classified as a Formosan language [1]. The same as many other ethnic labels of Taiwan indigenous groups, “Tao”  means...

語言的某種結晶 -「稱呼」, 所呈現的世界

“A language is a flash of the human spirit. It’s a vehicle through which the soul of each particular culture comes into the material world. ”“語言是人類靈魂的神來一筆。是透過它,每個獨特的文化精神,才得以在物質世界體現。”“Every language is an old-growth forest of the mind, a watershed, a thought, an...

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