Formosan y Austronesian Languages Map

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LANGUAGES FROM SOUTHEAST ASIA

ROAMING OCEANIA: ECAI LINGUISTIC ATLAS

ON AUSTRONESIA

Presented Nov 7th, 2003

Pacific Neighborhood Consortium (PNC)

Conference and Joint Meetings

Cultural Heritage and

Collaboration in the Digital Age

Work on the

Austronesian Atlas for

Languages and Cultures

in Monsoon Asia

David Blundell


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Introduction

This work stems from the Pacific Neighborhood Consortium (PNC)

established in the early 1990s. It is based on digital museum projects

concerning linguistics, prehistory, and ethnology, as an Oceaniacultural virtual museum. Over the past few years, groups from the

University of California, Berkeley (UCB), and others are setting up

teams of the Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative (ECAI), to connect

areas of the world through digital geographical information systems

(GIS). From these shared projects, scholars have unified a

technical information networkwith parameters to chart global spatial

temporal data. The initiative is to link geographical sectorsof the world as modular areas of research.


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This Atlas

The digital cultural atlas for Austronesian speakers is a vast region.

Spatial layers of information are marked in time from prehistory

and up One layer is based on information of theLanguage atlas of the

Pacific Area (Wurm and Hattori 1981 and 1983). to the present as

continuous work from mutual research

serving as an academic bulletin board on the Internet for scholarly

exchange from Southeast Asia across Oceania.Currently I am working at Academia Sinica, Institute of Linguistics,

and a similar university institutes in Taiwan in terms of conducting

linguistic field studies and research on Austronesian languages.Regions of Monsoon Asia are undergoing mapping. Hainan is being

looked at for linguistic verification on the present state of

Austronesian languages.


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The earliest evidence of the

Austronesian linguistic

family points to Taiwan andthe surrounding islands.

These people have different

cultures proving them withspecialized means of co-

existing with the natural

environment.Ubersichtskarteproduced in Germany (1858).


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A Japanese map

(1901) shows a

line in red asboundary between

dividing Han

people (left) fromthe indigenous

communities.


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The projects that I will present here dwell on current thoughts on

heritage as a resource for development and the tools of maintaining

heritage for communicating information for public awareness and

research utility. Such projects include the professional management

of regional heritage sites and a regional component language atlas

of Austronesia based on geo-referenced data for spatio-temporalinformation storage and retrieval from maps.

The Batanes IslandsThese islands are between the Philippines and Taiwan in the Bashi

Channel where the Malayo-Polynesian Batanic languages are

spoken. Yami is spoken in the region of Taiwan on a separate isle.


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Taiwan in Relation to the Batanes Islandsof the Philippines 1900


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Taiwan in Relation to the Batanes Islands of the Philippines


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PublicationsThe bookAustronesian Taiwan: Linguistics, History, Ethnology,

Prehistory (2000) published by the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of

Anthropology, UC Berkeley, and the Shung Ye Museum of

Formosan Aborigines is now entering its second edition. This

resource will serve as the basis for an e-formatted publication co-

edited with Jeanette Zerneke to serialize the edition with linguisticscoming first. The Formosan Language time enabled maps

accomplished by Paul Li and Eric Yen at Academia Sinica will serve

as the basis for this part with links from the data, such as dictionariesand linguistic articles referenced to spatial/temporal designation.


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A map (2000) produced

by Paul Li giving historic

linguistic boundaries

in the publication

Austronesian Taiwan:

Linguistics, History,Ethnology, Prehistory.


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Diaspora

Diaspora of the Austronesian Language Family has created a

linguistic arena of geography that extends from Taiwan to the

Chilean territory of Easter Island, from Borneo to Madagascar.

This is by far the largest linguistic determining factor throughout

Southeast Asia yet primarily of the archipelagos from Myanmar

to Cambodia, Vietnam, Hainan, the Philippines, Indonesia out to

Melanesia (New Guinea), Malaysia. The coastal areas where thesea nomads reside from the Andaman Sea to the Celebes have

traditionally maintained Austronesian languages. Malay is a

gloss or lingua franca as a trade language from the Thai borderto the reaches of Indonesia with millions of speakers. Javanese is

said to have 70 to 80 million speakers. Yet most Austronesian

languages have only a few thousand speakers at most.


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A series of maps edited in two volumes by Stephen Wurm and Shiro

Hattori 1981 [Part 1] and 1983 [Part 2] as theLanguage Atlas of

the Pacific Area (The Australian Academy of the Humanities in

Collaboration with the Japan Academy. Canberra: The Australian

National University) provide a layer of reference for Austronesianlanguage spatial data.

Thanks to the people in Australia, especially Prof Crissman, thesupport from Academia Sinica at the Computing Center and Institute

of Linguistics (Preparatory Office), ECAI Central and its

community of scholarly exchange, the following maps were done

to give a clear and working picture of the Austronesian Diaspora

in Southeast Asia is being completed.


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Spatial data partially based on

Wurm and Hattori, eds. 1981and 1983


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Language spatial

information for WesternMalay-Polynesian in

Sumatra and the Malay

Peninsula based on Wurmand Hattori, eds.


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Language spatial

information for Western

Malay-Polynesian fromJava to Timor based on

Wurm and Hattori, eds.

Philippines spatial information based on Wurm and Hattori, eds. 1981


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Philippines spatial information based on Wurm and Hattori, eds. 1981

with data attributes in digital format prepared by Academia Sinica


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Language information

for the Philippinesas a test prepared by

the School of Information

Management & Systems

and ECAI Central at Cal.


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Other source projects in Taiwan working on Formosan languages:

Institute of Linguistic (Preparatory Office), Academia Sinica

Academia Sinica Institution Project of National Digital Archives

Project, Digital Archives of Formosan Aborigines, Languages

Council of Indigenous Peoples, Executive Yuan, ROC

Shung Ye Museum of Formosan Aborigines, Taipei

To name a few with new institutions being established in localschools, cultural centers, and universities, such the Program for

Austronesian Languages at the recently established Institute of

Linguistics, National Taitung University in Southeast Taiwan.


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Formosan y Austronesian Languages Map