FORMOSAN LANGUAGES AND CULTURES

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授課老師：蘇以文I-wen Su

MUSIC OF THE FORMOSAN

Music of the Bunun

Bunun‘s Fascinating Harmony: (Eight-part polyphony) 八部合音

Bunun‘s Eight-part polyphony

The ancient Bunun tribe tradition of polyphonic choral singing: a song without words.

8 man form a tight circle, each one adding a sound based on nature, e.g. the buzzing of insects or the sound of leaves blowing in the wind, to create a unique harmony

This tradition is one of the oldest and most primal kinds of musical expression still existing on Earth.

Songs by different tribes太巴朗民謠 Tai-ba-lang Folksong

1996 年奧運大會的主題曲 Main theme of Olympic－－老人飲酒歌 Elders Drinking Song

Trailer of Seediq Bale:Seediq Bale 賽德克‧巴萊 5 mins promo reel

七百個月亮 _ 勇士歌 ( 阿美族 )Seven hundred moons – Song of Warrior (Amis)

七百個月亮 _ 可愛的情人 ( 泰雅族 )Seven hundred moons – Lovely Lover (Atayal)

A Seediq Bale: A hero of the Tribe After the 1895 Treaty of Shimonoseki that ceded the

island of Taiwan (aka Formosa) to Japan, there was immediate tension between the islanders and their new colonial masters. In spite of the many small rebellions, the brutal suppression of the Taiwanese Revolt in 1916 brought an uneasy peace.

The aboriginal tribes of Taiwan were then deprived of their lands and their weapons, along with their traditions of head-hunting and face tattooing. The tattooing was an integral part of tribal cultures: in the Seediq tribes, when a young man was given his face-tattoo it signified that he had passed from boyhood to manhood and become a 'hero of the tribe' -- a Seediq Bale.

Formosan Languages:Introduction

IntroductionFormosan languages:◦ languages of the indigenous peoples of Taiwan

Taiwanese aborigines ◦about 2% of the island's population ◦Far fewer of the 2% can speak their ancestral

language, after centuries of language shift Of the approximately 26 languages of the

Taiwanese aborigines, at least ten are extinct, another four (perhaps five) are moribund, and several others are to some degree endangered.

Language Shiftlanguage transfer/replacement◦ the process whereby a speech community of a

language shifts to speaking another language◦most often across generations within a linguistic

community.The process whereby a community of speakers

of one language becomes bilingual in another language, and gradually shifts to the second language is called assimilation.

When a linguistic community ceases to use their original language, language death is said to occur

Extinct Languagesa language that no longer has any

speakers, or that is no longer in current use.

Extinct languages are sometimes contrasted with dead languages, which are still known and used in special contexts in written form, but not as ordinary spoken languages for everyday communication.

Language extinction and language death are often equated.

Moribund LanguagesA languages is ◦safe if children will probably be speaking them

in 100 years, endangered if children will probably not be speaking them in 100 years

◦"moribund" if children are not speaking them now

15-30% (or 900-1,800) of languages are estimated to become moribund (Krauss)

Krauss, Michael E. (2007). "Keynote-Mass Language Extinction and Documentation: The Race Against Time".

Endangered Languagesa language that is at risk of falling out of

useIf it loses all its native speakers, it

becomes a dead language. If eventually no one speaks the language

at all it becomes an "extinct language".

Significance of Formosan Languages

Taiwan may be the place of origin of the entire Austronesian language family

Formosan languages form 9 of the 10 principal branches of the Austronesian language family (Robert Blust), while the one remaining principal branch contains nearly 1,200 Malayo-Polynesian languages found outside of Taiwan.

a broad consensus has coalesced:◦ the Austronesian langs originated in Taiwan◦a theory strengthened by recent studies in human

population geneticsBlust, Robert (1999). "Subgrouping, circularity and extinction: some issues in Austronesian comparative".

The current linguistic situationAll Formosan languages are slowly being

replaced by the culturally dominant Standard Chinese.

The Republic of China government started recently an aboriginal re-appreciation program that included the reintroduction of Formosan first language in Taiwanese schools.

The results of this initiative have been disappointing, though.

Taiwan Formosan Languages: Living

Atayal (high dialect diversity) Bunun (high dialect diversity) Amis Kanakanabu (moribund) Kavalan (moribund?) Paiwan Saisiyat Puyuma Rukai (high dialect diversity) Saaroa (moribund) Seediq (AKA Truku) Thao (moribund) Tsou

Formosan Languages: English only

Wiki kwami

Taiwan Formosan Languages: Extinct

BabuzaBasayFavorlangHoanyaKetagalanMakataoPazehPaporaTaivoanTaokasSiraya

Formosan Languages (Ch & Eng)

Wiki Bstlee

Lexical evidence by LiCognatesGenetic relationshipFamily tree

Cognates• words that have a common etymological

origin• Loanwords from another language are

usually not meant by the term • e.g. the English word king is not considered a

true cognate of Dutch koning or German König.• Cognates within the same language are

called doublets• shirt (< OE sċyrte) and skirt (loaned< Old Norse

skyrta) are doublets, both of which derive from the Proto-Germanic *skurtjōn-.

Genetic Relationship• the (GENEALOGICAL) relationship, established

through use of the comparative method of linguistic analysis, between languages that are members of the same language family (languages that possess genetic ties with one another)

• Two languages are genetically related if one is descended from the other or if both are descended from a common ancestor.• Italian, descended from Latin, is genetically related

to Latin. • Spanish, also descended from Latin, is therefore

genetically related to Italian.

Li, Paul Jen-kuei, Classification of Formosan languages: Lexical evidence. BIHP 61.4:813-848. (1990)

OUTFIT OF THE FORMOSAN

Atayal

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Saisiat

Wiki CenkX

Bunun

布農族 - 人物 from 國立臺灣史前文化博物館 Digital Museum of Taiwan Indigenous People (2008)

布農族 - 人物 from 國立臺灣史前文化博物館 Digital Museum of Taiwan Indigenous People (2008)

Tsou

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Krauss, Michael E. (2007). "Keynote-Mass Language Extinction and Documentation: The Race Against Time". In Miyaoka, Osahito; Sakiyama, Osamu; Krauss, Michael E.. The Vanishing Languages of the Pacific Rim (illustrated ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 3–24and used subject to the fair use doctrine of the Taiwan Copyright Act Article 50 by NTU OCW

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Blust, Robert (1999). "Subgrouping, circularity and extinction: some issues in Austronesian comparative". In Zeitoun, E.; Li, P.J.K. Selected papers from the Eighth International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics. Taipei: Academia Sinica. pp. 31–94.and used subject to the fair use doctrine of the Taiwan Copyright Act Article 50 by NTU OCW

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