Taivoan people
Ethnic group indigenous to southern Taiwan / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Taivoan[lower-alpha 1] or Tevorangh[lower-alpha 2] are a Taiwanese indigenous people. The Taivoan originally settled around hill and basin areas in Tainan, especially in the Yujing Basin [zh], which the Taivoan called Tamani, later transliterated into Japanese Tamai (玉井) and later borrowed in Chinese (Yujing). The Taivoan historically called themselves Taivoan, Taibowan, Taiburan or Shisha.[1][2]
Total population | |
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20,000+ (est.) | |
Regions with significant populations | |
Kaohsiung, Tainan, Taitung and Hualien | |
Languages | |
Taivoan, Taiwanese, Mandarin | |
Religion | |
Animism, Buddhism, Christianity, Taoism | |
Related ethnic groups | |
Siraya, Makatao |
Taivoan people | |||||||
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Traditional Chinese | 大武壠族 | ||||||
Simplified Chinese | 大武垅族 | ||||||
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Alternative Chinese name | |||||||
Traditional Chinese | 大滿族 | ||||||
Simplified Chinese | 大满族 | ||||||
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Second alternative Chinese name | |||||||
Chinese | 四社 | ||||||
Literal meaning | four tribes | ||||||
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According to some scholars, there should be more than 20,000 Taivoan people nowadays, estimated based on the records during Japanese rule of Taiwan, ranked as the second largest non-status indigenous people in Taiwan, after the Makatao people.[3]
Many scholars propose that the name of the island Taiwan actually came from the indigenous people's name, as the pronunciation of Taivoan is similar to Tayovan, the people that the Dutch met around the coast of Anping or the bay around Anping, which later became the name Taiwan. In addition, the Taivoan established a settlement called Taiouwang, which is the only indigenous community residing there whose name resembles Taiwan.[4][5]