How Joey L. photographs the Mentawai tribes in Indonesia (Editor’s note: I was really into studying linguistics my last year in college, endangered languages in particular. On my father’s side, my roots trace back to natives of Taiwan…like Taiwanese aborigines. Of the approximately 26 known languages of the Taiwanese Aborigines (collectively referred to as the Formosan languages), at least ten are extinct, five are moribund and several are to some degree endangered. These languages are of unique historical significance, since most historical linguists consider Taiwan to be the original homeland of the Austronesian language family.)