Topics Building  Database of Dr. Tsuchida’s Formosan Languages Materials

The IRC project “Building  Database of Dr. Tsuchida’s Formosan Languages Materials” started in 2022, has been digitizing the Formosan languages materials collected by Dr. Shigeru Tsuchida (1934-). As an outcome, we released the online resource “Dr. Tsuchida’s Materials on Formosan Languages” (in Japanese) in March 2023.

Dr. Tsuchida conducted field research in 16 aboriginal languages in Taiwan between 1968 and 1989 and recorded a vast amount of data. In this project, we have received from Dr. Tsuchida the linguistic materials resulting from his research, and have been digitizing them and creating metadata for them.

His materials consist primarily of field notes, which include word and sentence examples, as well as spontaneous speech transcriptions, and corresponding tape recordings. This online resource provides metadata for these materials.

(Written by Asako SHIOHARA and Mayumi ADACHI)

• 2022 End-of-year report
  Building Database of Dr. Tsuchida’s Formosan Languages Materials (in Japanese)