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