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Language is an indispensable medium for the development of world civilization, but nowadays many minority languages have gradually disappeared and become endangered languages. According to a survey published in 2016 by the Council of Indigenous Peoples of the Republic of China, the lower the average age of Taiwanese indigenous peoples, the lower the vitality of the indigenous languages, which presents a potential crisis of indigenous language loss.
In this study, we choose several Taiwanese indigenous ethnic groups with a larger population, the Amis, the Atayal, and the Bunun, building a "Taiwanese Indigenous Languages Translation System." Using the Deep Learning technology, it is able to convert indigenous languages to Mandarin automatically through the Machine Translation after reading the languages. We hope that we can promote the learning of Taiwanese indigenous languages and enhance the inheritance of endangered languages. |