_other_languages_used: "Mandarin Chinese; Japanese (elders)",
domains_of_use: "Used mainly only in the home and/or with family, and may not be the primary language even in these domains for many community members.",
public_comment: ""Taiwan was colonized by Japan from 1895-1945. In order to completely control the indigenous people, the government's policy was to move residents from the heart of the mountains to the plains... As a consequence of emigration, Atayal and Sediq people from different villages were forced to live together and constitute new communities... The mutually unintelligible groups, Atayal and Sediq, needed a lingua franca for inter-group communication..." (p.353)",