Unfortunately this blog never really got off the ground as I got busy with other stuff (getting married, getting on with my job etc.) and it fell by the wayside.
However, things have now settled down a bit and I’ve opened a new website called Tailingua, which includes information about the language and a “News” section [...]
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Tailingua: New Website about the Taiwanese Language
October 20, 2007Computers and romanised Taiwanese
September 21, 2006In the comments section of this blog, Prince Roy asked a question about fonts for Taiwanese romanisation – a fleshed out answer is the subject of this post.
One of the problems with POJ being a fairly obscure system for writing a neglected language is that of entering the romanisation on a computer. Hanyu Pinyin for [...]
Taiwanese: a doomed language?
August 24, 2006Mark over at Pinyin News has posted about the latest issue of Sino-Platonic Papers, which is a paper by Deborah Beaser about the decline of the Taiwanese language. I feel the article contained a few flaws of fact and reasoning, but in general the conclusion she makes about the ‘inevitable’ decline of Taiwanese does not [...]
