Banaue Rice Terraces
https://Wikipedia.org/wiki/Banaue_Rice_Terraces

"… terraces that were carved into the mountains of #Banaue #Ifugao in the #Philippines, by the ancestors of the #Igorot people. The terraces are occasionally called the "Eighth Wonder of the World" …
… rice is an #ancient #ancestral #crop of the Philippines, having been carried by #Austronesian migrations into the islands since at least 1500 #BCE …"

#rice #agriculture #time & #timelessness ◯ ∘ ⋅

"Artists like #Abao are at the forefront of a whole new generation of #Taiwanese musicians who do not sing in Mandarin Chinese, but rather their own #Austronesian languages, native to #Taiwan.
Their popularity reflects changing tastes in Taiwan, away from an exclusively Chinese-centered pop culture toward one that is uniquely Taiwanese. The shift has been further fueled by an overdue recognition of #Indigenous culture and language in Taiwan..."

https://www.npr.org/2022/12/28/1144248191/taiwan-music-abao-indigenous

Taiwan Plus has some good follow up coverage on the Constitutional Court's recent decision that the Siraya people must be recognized as Indigenous Taiwanese.

#Taiwan #Indigenous #law #constitution #Austronesian

https://youtu.be/W957C2Ksd28

Introduction post, for the recent influx. My name is Margaret and I’m a #linguist. My focuses are #language documentation, #phonology (including phonological #typology), acoustic #phonetics and all related quantitative methodologies, language conservation/revitalization, and #Austronesian and #Papuan languages. I recently defended. Yay!

I live in Alaska (originally moved here at age 10) and did my MA and PhD at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa. I am originally from Kentucky.

Hi all. I'm Tom (he/him), a linguistics PhD student at the University of Hawaiʻi Mānoa. I'm interested in historical linguistics and language change; language endangerment, documentation, and conservation; and the languages of Micronesia and Japan. #introduction #linguistics #archaeology #austronesian #micronesia #japan

RT @joshiunn: A win for #Indigenous rights in #Taiwan:
The Taiwan gov has decided to relax its Chinese-lang registration system to enable Indigenous ppl to use a sole legal Indigenous name in Latin script. No more awkward Chinese transliterations of #Austronesian names are needed. #decolonize https://t.co/IEXrQEDq0u