Taiwanese slipping
The following article is in Chinese and is smothered in colorful ads, but you can see with your own eyes from the headline the dismaying figure of 22.3% young people who can speak their mother tongue:
Zhuānjiā bào Táiyǔ xiāoshī wéijī `nánbù yě hěn qīcǎn' quán Tái jǐn 22.3% niánqīng rén huì jiǎng
專家爆台語消失危機「南部也很淒慘」 全台僅22.3%年輕人會講
"Experts reveal the crisis of Taiwanese disappearing; even the South is in a miserable condition: in the whole of Taiwan, only 22.3% of young people can speak it."
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