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manish Triglot Groupie Romania Joined 5545 days ago 88 posts - 136 votes Speaks: Romanian*, English, German Studies: Spanish
| Message 17 of 20 22 March 2012 at 1:54pm | IP Logged |
Nguyen wrote:
Unless these dialects use seperate writing systems from Classical Chinese used in Taiwan then you should be able to get the context easily. |
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Taiwan's aboriginal languages are not Chinese dialects, they belong to the Austronesian language family. They don't have standardized writing systems, and if they would have them, then they would probably be written in the Latin script, like virtually all other Austronesian languages.
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| Ari Heptaglot Senior Member Norway Joined 6581 days ago 2314 posts - 5695 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Mandarin, Cantonese Studies: Czech, Latin, German
| Message 18 of 20 22 March 2012 at 1:59pm | IP Logged |
Mae wrote:
Right, but Daniel Tammet is a savant. |
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Tammet's claim to being a savant has been heavily questioned by many. It's highly doubtful that he's anything of the sort. Rather, he's a very talented and skilled memory artist (which, of course, Glossika is not, as far as I know).
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Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6702 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map
| Message 19 of 20 22 March 2012 at 2:21pm | IP Logged |
manish wrote:
Taiwan's aboriginal languages are not Chinese dialects, they belong to the Austronesian language family. They don't have standardized writing systems, and if they would have them, then they would probably be written in the Latin script, like virtually all other Austronesian languages. |
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At the Taroko National park near Hualien I saw a trilingual text near the Visitor Centre, and the local aboriginal language was indeed written in Latin letters.
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