Study of Linguistic and Cultural Changes among the Native People in Southern Taiwan

这个为期两年的项目旨在揭示台湾的语言和文化变化，特别关注Thao， Kavalan, Siraya, Bunun， Kanakanabu和Paiwan。在南投省的日月潭附近，大约有二三十人说“涛”语，显然已经濒临灭绝。卡瓦兰语是福尔摩沙东海岸大约500名30岁以上的人说的语言。土田可以收集这两种语言的语言资料。然而，西拉亚似乎已经完全灭绝了。尽管我们做了很大的努力，我们还是找不到一个还记得这种语言的老人。卡纳卡纳布族，也被称为南祖族，是另一个正在失去自己文化和语言的民族。Kasahara从文化人类学的角度考察了排湾的Kanakanabu和Raval亚群。文化上，前者受到周围布农的影响，后者受到台湾人的影响。Moriguchi对布农的北部方言进行了实地考察，该方言保留了布农在所有其他方言中丢失的最古老的特征。我们的调查结果将在下一个财政年度末公布。

This two-year project aims at revealing the linguistic and cultural changes in Formosa, focusing especially on Thao, Kavalan, Siraya, Bunun, Kanakanabu, and Paiwan. Thao is spoken perhaps by about twenty to thirty people around Sun-Moon Lake in Nantou Province, and is apparently on verge of extinction. Kavalan is spoken on the east coast of Formosa by about five hundred people of over thirty years old. Tsuchida could collect linguistic data of these two languages. Siraya, however, seems to have become totally extinct. In spite of our great effort we could not find any old men and women who still remember the language. Kanakanabu, also known as southern Tsou, is another ethnic group which is losing their own culture and language. Kasahara investigated Kanakanabu and Raval subgroup of Paiwan from the standpoint of cultural anthropology. Culturally the former has been affected much by the surrounding Bunun, and the latter by the Taiwanese. Moriguchi conducted fieldwork on the northern dialect of Bunun, which retains the oldest feature of Bunun lost in all other Bunun dialects. The results of our investigation will be published by the end of next fiscal year.