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  • medium_adult_son [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    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