Talk:Formosan languages

message: Favorlang language
The articles of Christian instruction in Favorlang-Formosan, Dutch and English, from Vertrecht's manuscript of 1650 : with Psalmanazar's dialogue between a Japanese and a Formosan, and Happart's Favorlang vocabulary (1896)
https://archive.org/details/cu31924026424675
Dictionary of the Favorlang dialect of the Formosan language, tr. by W.H. Medhurst (1840)
https://archive.org/details/dictionaryfavor00happgoog
Siraya
Sinckan Manuscript studies
http://books.google.com/books?id=5CDUYQ3S-V0C&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false
http://books.google.com/books?id=hlnKRaZ0f4QC&pg=PA35#v=onepage&q&f=false
http://books.google.com/books?id=hlnKRaZ0f4QC&pg=PA36#v=onepage&q&f=false
http://books.google.com/books?id=abMMAQAAMAAJ
Revival
http://lingdy.aacore.jp/doc/indonesiacurrenttrend/alexander_adelaar_p.pdf
Malay and Javanese Loanwords in Malagasy, Tagalog and Siraya
http://www.sabrizain.org/malaya/library/loanwords.pdf
A comparative vocabulary of Formosan languages and dialects
https://archive.org/details/comparativevocab19ogaw
Austronesian language course at National Tsing Hua University
http://www.ling.nthu.edu.tw/faculty/hcliao/Tsing%20Hua%20courses/Fall%202011_AN%20lg%20contact.pdf
Rajmaan (talk) 14:04, 9 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sources and materials on Favorlang and Siraya (extinct Formosan languages) 

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message: Are the Formosan languages a geographic/ethnic grouping? As far as I can tell, there is not "Formosan" genetic language family. The Verified Cactus 100% 01:29, 15 February 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Geographic grouping? 

message: "Of the approximately 26 languages of the Taiwanese aborigines, at least ten are extinct, another four (perhaps five) are moribund, and several others are to some degree endangered." Aren't all remaining Formosan languages endangered? As far as I can see, even the remaining Formosan languages are hardly spoken by younger people. Can't we just change the latter clause into "all others are to some degree endangered"? Steinbach (talk) 09:51, 3 July 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: A reliable source is needed for any and all statements on Wikipedia.50.111.1.254 (talk) 04:06, 22 November 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Several others" 

message: Currently, the "Origins" section on this page has no content other than a summary of a manuscript by Roger Blench which rejects the existence of a "Proto-Austronesian" language. This violates Wikipedia's policies wrt Due and undue weight , because this view is in the extreme minority: I am unaware of any academic source that agrees with Blench on this claim, versus the copious sources that clearly affirm the existence of a Proto-Austronesian language. It also makes this page strangely inconsistent/contradictory with other pages on Austronesian languages and Austronesian-speaking peoples. An article that accounted for the well-attested views in the scholarship I think would sufficiently discuss the origin of the Formosan languages by simply containing a sentence noting that they are (near) universally understood to derive from a Proto-Austronesian language, and would contain a hyperlink to that page, and/or potentially a link to the page on Austronesian peoples.
Koeawila (talk) 02:15, 9 January 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Undue weight problems in the "Origins" section