台灣南島語族鄒族ê語言使用kap語言能力

Language Use and Language Ability of the Tsou People of the Taiwanese Austronesian Language Group

陳麗君(Le-Kun Tan)

《台語研究》 2卷1期 (2010/03) Pp. 4-26

https://doi.org/10.6621/JTV.2010.0201.01

摘要

鄒語是佇危險邊緣的一今少數民族語言，這篇研究用社會語言學的方法調查鄒族的語言使用和語言能力，結果顯示鄒族的語言使用已經出現「消失中語言」的成分，包含：1)字語的借用；2)無完整的雙語情形；3)語言無法度傳hōo面後一代；4)無平衡的雙語群體kap語言面頂的競爭。照Fishman的「隔代中斷分級制度」(Graded Intergenerational Disruption Scale)，鄒語已經會當算是佇上危機的級數，kan-nā tshun老人teh使用。所以，少年人受母語教育kap kā盔鄒語列做官方語言之一，是上緊急koh需要的。

關鍵字

南島語族 ； 鄒族 ； 語言能力 ； 語言使用 ； 社會語言學

並列摘要

Tsou people is minority on the ragged edge. This study investigated Tsou language use and language ability by sociolinguistic methods. In the result, well known process of vanishing language were uncovered for Tsou language usage. 1) borrowing words, 2) incomplete bilingual, 3) the language cann't be handed down from generation to generation, and 4) unbalanced bilingual community and language competition. According to Fishman's Graded Intergenerational Disruption Scale, Tsou language has been given the most crisis level which only old people can speak the language. Therefore, these are urgency that mother language education for young adults, and upgrade of Tsuo language to official language.

並列關鍵字

Austronesian ； Tsou ； sociolinguistic ； language use ； language ability ； language choice

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