What percentage of people on the island of Taiwan speak the language of the indigenous people?
Wikipedia says 2.3% of the people living there are indigenous, but only 1.4% speak a Formosan language due to “language shift” - but the article leads with the info on how during 40 years of martial law under a US-backed regime, speaking their native language was heavily suppressed. It took until the 2000s for any sort of promotion of these languages.
What percentage of people on the island of Taiwan speak the language of the indigenous people?
Wikipedia says 2.3% of the people living there are indigenous, but only 1.4% speak a Formosan language due to “language shift” - but the article leads with the info on how during 40 years of martial law under a US-backed regime, speaking their native language was heavily suppressed. It took until the 2000s for any sort of promotion of these languages.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Taiwan