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最近S.H.E.的新歌「中國話」引起不少網友熱烈討論，
也有人將其改編成「台灣話」。

我不清楚「中國話」作詞者的動機、
不清楚S.H.E.選這首歌的目的、
也不清楚「台灣話」改編者的思考模式。
我只知道，無論是「中國話」或「台灣話」，
我看了歌詞後都很憂心。

Châⁿ bé chit-pún chhē, Hun-Lân Keng-Iām,
Khòaⁿ ià-bōe liáu,
Kàu-taⁿ tioh kám-siū chin chhim.
Kóng Hun-Lân-gí ê jîn-kháu kài chiò,
Ià-m̄-koh īn chin iōng-sim lé pó-chûn Hun-Lân-gí,
Bē siūⁿ-bé lám Sūi-Tián-gí ê tōa-thúi.

Góa bōe-in-e sit-chì,
　　 bōe-in-e sôe-khì.

看芬蘭的經驗
昨天買了本書，芬蘭驚艷，
還沒看完[按：昨天晚上已看完]，到目前就感受很深了。
說芬蘭語的人口很少，
不過，他們很用心在保存芬蘭語，
不會想要以瑞典語為尊。

我不能失志，
　不能氣餒。
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這是用白話字寫的，
關於白話字，可以參考
Wikipedia--白話字，Pe̍h-ōe-jī (POJ)
POJ
橫柴掠予直：台語文學習分享
台語信望愛

Taiwan is a hell for languages other than Chinese, English,
　and other foreign languages.
Taiwan is a treasure island when it comes to the origin of
　Austronesian languages.

Austronesian languages contain about 1200 languages,
　belonging to 10 subgroups.
Austronesian languages spoken outside Taiwan are of
　one subgroup, and the other nine subgroups can only be found
　in Taiwan!

It might be my interested subject of further research.



For more detailed info, please see
Linguistics: Taiwan's gift to the world
台灣給世界的贈禮

Blust's analysis yields an astonishing pattern. Those 1,200 Austronesian languages fall into ten subgroups, of which nine (containing only 26 languages) are spoken only by the non-Chinese aborigines of the island of Taiwan. The tenth subgroup encompasses all Austronesian languages outside Taiwan, from Madagascar to east Polynesia — all 1,174 of them. It is as if the Indo-European language family consisted of 1,174 closely related Slavic languages, spoken from Britain to Sri Lanka, with all nine other Indo-European language groups — Germanic, Celtic, Hittite, Italic and the rest of them — being confined to Ireland. Previous studies had recognized several distinctive Austronesian language groups on Taiwan, but it had not been appreciated that the number was so high.

Góa pún-lâi siūⁿ-kong Tâi-gí ê hoat-tián bô siáⁿ-mih hi-bāng a,
Siūⁿ-bé kā pàng-sak ,
Ia̍h-m̄-koh, góa khòaⁿ-tiò chit-kóa pò-tò,
Ū-è gôan-chū-bîn ê gí-giân tit-beh bia̍t-cho̍at a,
Īn mā-koh kè-sio̍k kóng īn-ê bó-gí.

Góa, nà-ū sit-chì ê kôan-lī,
Góa ài kè-sio̍k kóng,
Tiō-sǹg-kóng góa sī chè-āu chit-ê kóng Tâi-gí ê lâng,
Goa mā-ài kian-chhî-lo̍h-khì.

A map of Sinitic languages, from Wikipedia

Choe-kin in-ui lu-peng-iu tui Han-bun (Han-kok e gi-bun) u heng-chu,
goa ma cho-hoe chiap-chhiok Han-bun.
Hoat-hian-kong, Han-bun ma-si chit-chiong phin-in-bun-ji,
kap Peh-oe-ji sio-kang.
Chit-ma e Han-bun, oaⁿ-choaⁿ si eng-lai piau-in, bo piau-i e kong-leng,
Han-bun m-ma-si hoat-tian seng chit-chiong chin oaⁿ-cheng e bun-ji,
bo-lang chit-gi kong: "i kan-ta si pin-in, be-eng-e seng-cho bun-ji."

Lau-sit-kong, goa chin-cheng ma it-tit long bo-hoat-to͘ khak-teng:
"tau-te Peh-oe-ji kam seng-si chit-chiong bun-ji?"
Chit-ma, goa e-tang khak-teng-ah,
bun-ji he-thong pa-pa-chiong,
chi-iau u-hoat-to͘ ki-lok gi-gian, i tio-si bun-ji.
Tai-to-so͘ e lang bo-hoat-to͘ chiap-sui POJ,
chu-iau long-si sui Hua-gi eng-hiong siuⁿ-koe chhim e koan-he.