 Taivoan elders in traditional dress at the Night Ceremony in Xiaolin, Kaohsiung | |
| 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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| Taiwanese indigenous peoples |
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The Taivoan[a] or Tevorangh[b] are a Taiwanese indigenous people. The Taivoan originally settled around hill and basin areas in Tainan, especially in the Yujing Basin, 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]
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 whom 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]
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- ^ Tsuchida, Shigeru; Yamada, Yukihiro; Moriguchi, Tsunekazu (1991). Linguistic Materials of the Formosan Sinicized Populations I: Siraya and Basai. The University of Tokyo Department of Linguistics. p. 29.
- ^ Alak, Akatuang (2013). 阿立祖信仰研究. Tainan: Cultural Affairs Bureau, Tainan City Government. pp. 21, 25–33, 44, 134, 162–164, 190. ISBN 978-986-03-9416-0.
- ^ "首次大武壠族跨部落族群共識會議聲明稿 (Consensus Statement of the 1st Inter-tribal Consensus Conference of Taivoan People)". Mahanru Taivoan. 2016-10-06. Retrieved 2018-01-24.
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:6was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ 種回小林村的記憶 : 大武壠民族植物暨部落傳承400年人文誌 (A 400-Year Memory of Xiaolin Taivoan: Their Botany, Their History, and Their People). Kaohsiung City: 高雄市杉林區日光小林社區發展協會 (Sunrise Xiaolin Community Development Association). 2017. ISBN 978-986-95852-0-0.