{"id":493,"date":"2012-06-27T07:41:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-27T07:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ijaps.usm.my\/?page_id=493"},"modified":"2020-04-19T19:32:33","modified_gmt":"2020-04-19T11:32:33","slug":"taiwan-austronesian-language-heritage-connecting-pacific-island-peoples-diplomacy-values-david-blundell","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ijaps.usm.my\/?page_id=493","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan Austronesian Language Heritage Connecting Pacific Island Peoples: Diplomacy and Values, by David Blundell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vol. 7, No. 1 (2011): 75\u201391.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Abstract<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As we engage in the current Pacific arena of diplomacy and cultural values, the \u00a0position of Taiwan as an early linguistic factor in the dispersal of its languages is \u00a0important to observe. The region is increasingly using this linguistic heritage to seek collaboration and partnership. Since Neolithic prehistory, Taiwan has\u00a0ushered in the Austronesian languages that became about 1,200 in number \u00a0spreading across most of Island Southeast Asia and Oceania for several thousand \u00a0years, extending from origins, with examples found in the Formosan languages, through the Malayo-Polynesian languages of the islands of Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, Micronesia, Melanesian islands, Polynesia, and across the Indian\u00a0Ocean in Madagascar. These languages are valuable, regardless of their extent,\u00a0influence, or number of speakers, as part of the basic richness of humanity\u2014a farreaching interconnecting legacy of communication and worldviews. This article \u00a0explores the concept of Taiwan and Austronesia\u2014positioning historical roots and\u00a0contemporary languages and cultures as valuable peaceful and sustainable development tools for island inter-connectivity across the Pacific that can be used to seek collaboration and partnership due to their association with heritage.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Author&#8217;s bio<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">David Blundell (PhD Anthropology, University of California) at National Chengchi University in Taipei, has contributed a number of publications on anthropology of Pacific languages including \u201cAustronesian Taiwan: Linguistics, History, Ethnology, Prehistory\u201d (Revised Edition 2009). His research collaborates with UC Berkeley, Electronic Cultural Atlas (ECAI, see www.ecai.org), and his course offerings include anthropology of languages and cultures, belief systems, visual anthropology, cultural and ethnic structure of Taiwan, South Asia as a cultural area, symbolic anthropology, life histories, sociolinguistics, endangered languages, multilingual education, and international development.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Download\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"David Blundell: Taiwan Austronesian Language\" href=\"http:\/\/ijaps.usm.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/DavidBlundell_Languages.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Download full article (PDF)<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vol. 7, No. 1 (2011): 75\u201391. 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