1991 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
Study of Linguistic and Cultural Changes among the Native People in Southern Taiwan
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02041019
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for international Scientific Research
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | Field Research |
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| Research Institution | The University of Tokyo |
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Principal Investigator |
TSUCHIDA Shigeru The University of Tokyo, Faculty of Letters, Department of Linguistics (Professor), 文学部, 教授 (90014505)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
KASAHARA Masaharu Yokohama National University, Faculty of Education (Associate Professor), 教育学部, 助教授 (70130747)
MORIGUCHI Tsunekazu Yokohama National University, Faculty of Education (Associate Professor), 教育学部, 助教授 (10145279)
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| Project Period (FY) |
1990 – 1991
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| Keywords | Austronesian / Formosan Native Languages / Sinicized Language Groups / Siraya / Thao / Kavalan / Bunun / Tsou / Kanakanabu / Paiwan |
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| Research Abstract |
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.
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