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Taiwan: Indigenous conference brings together Austronesian speakers

Categories: East Asia, Taiwan (ROC), Indigenous

Life in Taiwan reports on an international conference for indigenous peoples [1] held in Taiwan. The conference brought together people from Austronesian-speaking countries to discuss issues such as health, education and endangered languages. Austronesian languages are spoken in the islands of the Pacific and Indian Oceans and parts of Southeast Asia.