‘Our language stopped 75 years ago’
In a modest conference room near the edge of Taiwan’s Sun Moon Lake, Panu Kapamumu holds up an unwieldy A3 booklet. The home-printed document contains every known word of Thao, the language of his Indigenous tribe. Kapamumu reads out a selection of Thao words and translations. He is a man in his 60s but still just a student of his mother tongue.
“,” he said. It translates in English to: “Everyone is safe and
