Chia-jung Pan

Telephone: +61 3 9479 6407 Email : cpan@students.latrobe.edu.au Fax: +61 3 9467 3053

Chia-jung Pan joined the RCLT as a PhD student in April 2008. For his MA thesis he worked on two dialects of the (Northern) Tsou language, Tfuya and Tapangu. After completion of his MA thesis at National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan, he worked in Formosan Language Archive of the Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica. He is currently working, under the supervision of Professor Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald and the co-supervision of Professor R.M.W. Dixon, on a reference grammar of Lha’alua (also known as Saaroa), a Formosan language of the Austronesian languages.

Lha’alua, with Kanakanavu jointly called Southern Tsou, is traditionally and currently subsumed into the Southern Tsou of the Tsouic Group. Lha’alua is spoken in Taoyuan Township, Kaohsiung County, Taiwan, approximately with the population of 300-500. At present, no more than fifteen members living in this community are able to speak the language.

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