Maps of Saisiyat
Taiwan: Ethnic Groups (Melton et al.)
Taiwan Ethnic Groups
Source: Melton, Terry, Stephanie Clifford, Jeremy Martinson, Mark Batzer and Mark Stoneking. 1998. Genetic Evidence for the Proto-Austronesian Homeland in Asia: mtDNA and Nuclear DNA Variation in Taiwanese Aboriginal Tribes. American Journal of Human Genetics. 1807-1823.
Date Digitized: 7 April 2011
Map Description:
This map gives approximate geographic boundaries for eight aboriginal groups in Taiwan.
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Taiwan: Formosan Languages and Yami (Li)
Formosan Languages and Yami
Source:
GIScience Lab. 2001. Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative (ECAI).
Data Source: Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative (ECAI)
Li, Paul. 2001. The Dispersal of Formosan Aborigines in Taiwan. Language and Linguistics 2(1).271-278.
Usage Notes/Copyright Status: Copyright GIScience Lab.
Date Created: 2000
Map Description:
This map displays the Formosan Languages of Taiwan and Yami (Batanic Language), which are located east of the southernmost point of Taiwan.
Data Source: Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative (ECAI)
Li, Paul. 2001. The Dispersal of Formosan Aborigines in Taiwan. Language and Linguistics 2(1).271-278.
Usage Notes/Copyright Status: Copyright GIScience Lab.
Date Created: 2000
Map Description:
This map displays the Formosan Languages of Taiwan and Yami (Batanic Language), which are located east of the southernmost point of Taiwan.
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The UNESCO Database of Endangered Languages (UNESCO)
The UNESCO Database of Endangered Languages
Map Creator:
LINGUIST List (Anthony Aristar)
Data Source: Mosely Christopher. 2010. Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger, 3rd edn. Paris, UNESCO Publishing, Online version. http://www.unesco.org/culture/languages-atlas/ (29 November 2010)
Contact: llmap
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Usage Notes/Copyright Status: Used by Permission
Date Created: 29 November 2010
Map Description:
UNESCO’s Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger is a database intended to raise awareness about language endangerment and the need to safeguard the world’s linguistic diversity among policy-makers, speaker communities and the general public, and to be a tool to monitor the status of endangered languages and the trends in linguistic diversity at the global level.
Degrees of endangerment
The map designates the degrees of endangerment as based on UNESCO’s Language Vitality and Endangerment framework.
This establishes six degrees of vitality/endangerment based on nine factors. Of these factors, the most salient is that of intergenerational transmission.
Data Source: Mosely Christopher. 2010. Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger, 3rd edn. Paris, UNESCO Publishing, Online version. http://www.unesco.org/culture/languages-atlas/ (29 November 2010)
Contact: llmap
linguistlist.org
Usage Notes/Copyright Status: Used by Permission
Date Created: 29 November 2010
Map Description:
UNESCO’s Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger is a database intended to raise awareness about language endangerment and the need to safeguard the world’s linguistic diversity among policy-makers, speaker communities and the general public, and to be a tool to monitor the status of endangered languages and the trends in linguistic diversity at the global level.
Degrees of endangerment
The map designates the degrees of endangerment as based on UNESCO’s Language Vitality and Endangerment framework.
This establishes six degrees of vitality/endangerment based on nine factors. Of these factors, the most salient is that of intergenerational transmission.
| Degree of endangerment | Intergenerational Language Transmission | safe | language is spoken by all generations; intergenerational transmission is uninterrupted >> not included in the map |
|---|---|
| vulnerable | most children speak the language, but it may be restricted to certain domains (e.g., home) |
| definitely endangered | children no longer learn the language as mother tongue in the home |
| severely endangered | language is spoken by grandparents and older generations; while the parent generation may understand it, they do not speak it to children or among themselves |
| critically endangered | the youngest speakers are grandparents and older, and they speak the language partially and infrequently |
| extinct | there are no speakers left >> included in the Atlas if presumably extinct since the 1950s |
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