“Dialects” really grates on me, too. But back in November the MOE announced that the languages of Taiwan other than Mandarin are now to be known as bentu (běntǔ yǔyán / 本土語言) rather than xiantu (xiāngtǔ yǔyán / 鄉土語言). Of course, that doesn’t help the translation query much, other than to note that “xiāngtǔ yǔyán” is no longer supposed to be used.
Here’s a quick-and-sloppy Pinyin version of a newspaper article on this I saved. I was planning to write about it but never got around to that. Sorry, I don’t have original anymore; but it could probably be found through a search for the headline.
[quote]Xiāngtǔ yǔyán jiàocái zhèngmíng běntǔ
Jiàoyùbù xiūzhèng「guómín xiǎoxué jí guómín zhōngxué jiāo kē túshū shěndìng bànfǎ」,jiāng Mǐnnányǔ, Kèjiāyǔ jí yuánzhùmínyǔ yóu yuánxiān yǒu biǎnyì yìwèi de「xiāngtǔ yǔyán」,zhèngmíng wéi「běntǔ yǔyán」,qiě zuì kuài míngnián běntǔ yǔyán jiàocái jiù xū sòngshěn,yǐ gǎishàn guòqu jiàocái nándù tài gāo jíshí yǒu cuòwù děng wèntí,dàn yóuyú biāoyīn xìtǒng shàngwèi tǒngyī,kǒngpà běntǔ yǔyán jiàoxué háishi huì「yī guó duō zhì」.
Cǐwài,cóng Mínguó yībǎi nián qǐ,guó zhōngxiǎo jiàokēshū bùzài zhú cè sòngshěn,ér xū zhú xuénián sòngshěn,yě jiùshì shūshāng xū yīcì jiāng wánzhěng liǎng cè jiàokēshū sòngshěn,xuésheng bùbì zài dānxīn xià xuéqī yòu yùshàng huàn shū wèntí.
Jiàoyùbù guójiào sī kēzhǎng Wú lín huī zhǐchū,xīnbàn fǎ shíshī hòu,shūshāng xū jiāng yī xuénián liǎng cè jiàokēshū yīqǐ sòngshěn;tóngshí yě gǔlì guóxiǎo jiēduàn jiàokēshū fēnchéng xiǎo yī yǔ xiǎo’èr, xiǎo sān yǔ xiǎo sì, xiǎo wǔ yǔ xiǎo liù děng sān jiēduàn,cǎi fēn jiēduàn sòngshěn,fāngbiàn xuéxiào xuǎngòu jiàokēshū.
Quánguó jiàoshī huì lǐshìzhǎng Wú zhōng tài zé rènwéi,xiūgǎi guīdìng ràng shūshāng jiào yǒutánxìng,dàn tā yě zhìyí,běi běi jī zhèngzài tuīdòng yī gāng yī běn, gòng xuǎn guózhōng jiàokēshū,kěnéng yǐnqǐ qítā xiàn-shì gēnjìn,jiāng dǎozhì gè kē jiàokēshū sì, wǔ niánnèi huì biànchéng zhǐ shèng yījiā lǒngduàn qíngkuàng,jièshí kǒngpà xiū shénme jiàokēshū shěndìng bànfǎ yìyì dōu bùdà le.
Tóngyī jiàocái xū tǒngyī biāoyīn
duìyú běntǔ yǔyán biāoyīn xìtǒng wèntí,Wú lín huī biǎoshì,yóuyú Mǐnnányǔ jiàokēshū jiàocái nèiróng jiào fēnzá,nányǐ dìngdìng tǒngyī shěndìng biāozhǔn,yīncǐ mùqián zhǐyǒu běntǔ yǔyán jiàocái bùyòng sòngshěn. Mǐnnányǔ jiàocái yīnwèi yǒuxiē shǐyòng gǔwén,dǎozhì dì-yī xiàn de Mǐnnányǔ lǎoshī jiàoxué shàng yǒu kùnnan;qícì shì biāoyīn xìtǒng bù yīzhì,Mǐnnányǔ yǒu Tái-luō (Táiwān Mǐnnányǔ Luómǎzì pīnyīn fāng’àn), Jiāo-luō (jiàohuì luómǎzì), Tōngyòng Pīnyīn yǐ shì děng.
Wèicǐ,Guóyǔhuì biān zhì le「Mǐnnányǔ chángyòngzì tuījiàn bǎnběn」,tígōng chūbǎnshè zuòwéi biānshū shǐyòng,bìmiǎn jiàokēshū yǒu jiānsè nándǒng de gǔwén chūxiàn;ér zhǐyào tóngyī běn jiàokēshū shǐyòng tóngyī zhǒng biāoyīn xìtǒng,bùtóng jiàokēshū kě shǐyòng bùtóng biāoyīn xìtǒng,jiù kě jiějué sòngshěn biāozhǔn de wèntí.
Xīnfǎ lìng guīdìng,sòngshěn shūjú bù déyǐ wèijīng shěndìng de shūgǎo,tígōng xuéxiào zuòwéi xuǎnyòng jiāo kē túshū zhīyòng,yǐmiǎn jiàoshī píngxuǎn de jiàokēshū nèiróng yǔ shěndìng túshū bùtóng,yǐngxiǎng jiàokēshū xuǎnyòng zhìxù. Hànlín chūbǎn zhíxíngzhǎng yú lín biǎoshì,cǐjǔ yǒuzhù yú cùshǐ wèilái「yàngshū jiùshì chéngshū」,bìmiǎn yǒu wùdǎo, qīpiàn zhī xián.
Shūshāng pàn pīnyīn zhèngcè gèng míngquè
zhìyú běntǔ yǔyán jiàokēshū nàrù shěndìng fànwéi,yú lín qiángdiào,jiàokēshū shāng yǒu nénglì guīhuà xiāngguān jiàocái,dàn guójiā de pīnyīn zhèngcè, yǔyán zhèngcè fēi shūshāng suǒnéng zhǎngwò,xīwàng zhèngfǔ nénggòu gèngjiā míngquè.[/quote]