Because of that, on the east side of Taiwan, there’s many, many cultures that are orally transmitted, meaning that there’s no written history. People care are preserving the history. Now they’re more putting them into Latin alphabets and so on. Because they were Austronesian family of languages, it’s difficult, if not impossible, to use kanji to express it. They have to use the Latin characters.

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