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32: Fallen Leaves: The Chinese Languages (with Wu Mei-Shin, Ye Jingting, and Israel Lai)

Because Language - a podcast about linguistics, the science of language.

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The Pro-Manderan Language Movement

In some schools in Taiwan, if the students' majority populations are from Aboriginal people, then they will teach these Austronesian languages. I thought it was quite interesting that there was also the option of Taiwanese sign language alongside these other languages. That's really cool. Usually, sign languages get left out of initiatives like this. In most of the reading that I have seen, it does look like languages other than Putahua or Mandarin are under a lot of pressure. And Mandarin is sort of held up as this good language, the majority language,. The more majoritarian language, even sometimes a civilized language. And other ones aren't. It just seemed like a great initiative. Probably, having

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