With an understanding of how people have mixed together around the world throughout history, he says that at Taiwan's current stage--with the tribal cultures largely lost and the mother tongues unable to be passed down as before-- "one must use the power of Chinese to ensure the survival of each of the tribal languages in a different form."
他表示，從世界各民族的融合歷史來看，目前台灣山地各族群的文化已流失到這種程度，母語又無法持續保存，不太可能百分之百回到過去的傳統；「只能藉用漢文的力量，讓各族的母文化轉換成別種形式存在」，孫大川說。