1/20 http://www.glossika.com/en/dict/taiwanese/index.php
Really good Min-nan Taiwanese lessons. It's really sad that
pronunciation formalization is done by a whitie instead of
a native Min-nan speaker. Do Min-nan natives even care that
their language is dying? Why don't they write something
about themselves?
\_ You could say the same thing about a lot of People today and in
the past. Not everyone is that stuck on the academic concept of
"preserving culture" like a rare plant or animal. Cultures rise,
cultures change, cultures die. In this case maybe they don't see
themselves as "Min-nan" in the way you do or simply have better
things to do.
\_ Every time a language dies the number of people in the world who
can talk to eachother goes up.
\_ Ok by me.
\_ First of all, Ming-nan != Taiwanese. It literally means
"South of Fujian (province)." Secondly, Fujian as a province has
about 18 different dialects, the one spoken in Taiwan is mostly
dervied from dialects of Xiamen city. Third, much of so called
Ming-nan education was part of "Taiwanese identity" and
"de-sinofication" political movement. Those who are in charge,
strangely enough, cares *MORE* about the "de-sinofication" aspect
than "preserve Ming-nan" culture. Much effort was wasted on things
like "how to use Latin characters / Japanese characters to denote
Ming-nan dialect writing." Like all political movement, it comes
and goes. Since the unemployement is at 20 year high and economy
is growing at slowest pace in 40 years, identity has become
a less of a hot topic.
Lastly, don't worry about the fact that Ming-nan dialect is going
to die. It won't. Look and everywhere in mainland China,
dialects will be there forever, dispite that no dialect is being
taught in school. kngharv |
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