Souvenir brought back from Rapa Nui (Easter Island)  where I came across Indigenous-Polynesian language revitalizations: Hawaii - Rapa Nui -  Māori  New Zealand.  The experience broaden my knowledge about proto-language revitalization, strategies, hypotheses, development, mechanisms,  (most interestingly)  local interpretations and diversities, Germanic linguists dominance and influences (which I first noticed during a Poland trip in fact). All these allow me to look at indigenous-language-revitalizations in Taiwan from a wider perspective, making my own judgements, and develop my thoughts and opinions based on personal experiences and observations over the last decade.  Two points to make in the first instance -  1. Some aspects of either current or long-standing Austronesian linguists hypotheses and analysis on languages of indigenous peoples of Taiwan appear questionable. I see on several occasions (including significant indigenous -naming) loa...