23rd Dec 2010
敬愛的Shi-Yang Lin
感謝您寄來的信和慷慨的支票。
我的健康狀況良好並在劍橋地區繼續保持活躍。我們在聖哥倫布聯合歸正教會做禮拜(此教會從前為長老教會),這間教會和一所中文教會使用同樣場地。
我和劍橋地區的的“世界口語文學計畫“(WOLP)保持連絡,這個組織的目標是要紀錄世界上各種瀕臨遺失的語言。我在台灣其間曾學習排灣族語,並且幫忙翻譯排灣聖經,因此我能夠提供WOLP有關排灣語的資訊。我不清楚排灣族人是否將他們族群的語言視為“瀕臨遺失”,所以我已經對組織的官員們提出這問題,期待她們的答覆。
我們最近天氣異常的寒冷。
感謝與祝福,
John
Whitehorn |
23rd Dec 2010
Dear Shi-Yang Lin
Thank you very much for your letter and the generous cheque.
I am glad to say that I have kept in good health and am active in various ways here
in Cambridge. We attend St. Columbus United Reformed (formerly Presbyterian)
Church, which shares its premises with a Chinese church.
I am in touch with the World Oral Literature Project based in Cambridge, which
aims to record the many ‘dying’ languages in the world. In Taiwan I learnt the Paiwan language and helped with the translation of the Paiwan Shorter Bible. So
I have been supplying WOLP with information about the Paiwan language. I don’t
know whether the Paiwan people would regard it as a ‘dying’ language. I have put
this question to officials in the General Assembly offices and await their response.
We are having unusually cold weather here.
With thanks and best wishes.
John Whitehorn |