Why the ‘Out of Taiwan’ language theory is a cross-strait battleground
Mainland Chinese academics are countering the hypothesis that the island was the ancestral homeland of the Austronesian ...
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Which countries speak the most languages?
Discover the countries with the most 'living languages' – at number one is a nation that speaks more than 800 different dialects ...
Hawaii’s little-known connection to Taiwan bound by voyaging, language
We start our new series with Hawaii’s little-known connection to Taiwan, an island in East Asia that sits just below China. Mandarin is the main spoken language. Some speak Taiwanese Hokkien and Hakka ...
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The Japanese Language
the phonological system is closer to that of Austronesian languages (Alpatov 1998), but the archaic lexicon seems to have more Altaic elements (ibid.). This led to the hypothesis that Japanese (or, ...
China Internet Information Center26d
Did Taiwan's Indigenous Peoples come from the South?
"Southern Origin Theory" or "Mainland Origin Theory"? Scholarly interest in the Austronesian language family began with early 18th century linguistics. In 1706, Dutch scholar Adriaan Reland ...