Taiwanese aborigines

  • Total population
  • Homelands in Taiwan
    • Mountainous terrain running in five ranges from the northern to the southern tip of the island
    • Narrow eastern plains
    • Orchid Island (Lán Yǔ)
  • Mountainous terrain running in five ranges from the northern to the southern tip of the island
  • Narrow eastern plains
  • Orchid Island (Lán Yǔ)
  • Languages
  • With rare exceptions, the living languages and recognized tribes are of the Gaoshan (highland) tribes, who reside in the first two of the three regions given above. The extinct languages and unrecognized tribes are generally of the Pingpu (lowland), who formerly resided in the western plains region. The Tao people (or Yami) reside on Orchid Island, are a recognized tribe and speak a living (albeit endangered) language.
  • Taiwanese aborigines (Chinese: 臺灣原住民; pinyin: táiwānyuánzhùmín; Wade–Giles: t'ai2-wan1-yüan2-chu4-min2; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Tâi-ôan-gôan chū-bîn; literally: "Taiwanese original inhabitants") is the term commonly applied to the indigenous peoples of Taiwan, who number more than 530,000 and constitute nearly 2.3% of the island's population. Recent research suggests their ancestors may have been living on Taiwan for approximately 8,000 years before a major Han immigration began in the 17th century. Taiwanese aborigines are Austronesian peoples, with linguistic and genetic ties to other Austronesian ethnic groups, which includes those of the Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, Madagascar and Oceania. The issue of an ethnic identity unconnected to the Asian mainland has become one thread in the discourse regarding the political status of Taiwan.

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    Taiwan’s world music ambassadors

    Taipei Times 23 Aug 2024
    The ensemble was founded by Prairie, an American conservatory musician who studied French horn at Carnegie Mellon School of Music, together with Taiwanese vocalist Mia Hsieh (謝韻雅).
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    The controversial Olympic legacy of “Chinese, Taipei”

    Taipei Times 07 Aug 2024
    He was a Taiwanese aborigine from the Amis community, who, having emerged as a teen phenom in rural Taitung County, was ordered to compete in the decathlon by his Han Chinese coach.
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    The Political Myth Undergirding Peace in the Taiwan Strait

    Truth Dig 05 Feb 2024
    One of them was the activist and independence supporter Marie Lin, who claimed to have proved that 85% of Taiwanese had some aboriginal DNA and that the finding justifies forming “Taiwanese people ...
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    Taiwan Elections 2024: Polling begins for new President, successor to Tsai Ing-wen

    Live Mint 13 Jan 2024
     Polling to elect the next President and the running mate began on Saturday in Taiwan, with over nineteen million people, of which one million are first-time voters, ...
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    Polling begins in Taiwan, over 19 million voters to elect President, VP as world watches

    Beijing News 13 Jan 2024
    The voters will receive three ballots -- a presidential ballot, a regional or aboriginal legislator ballot and a ballot for a political party that will determine legislator-at-large seats. Taiwanese ...
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    Taiwan marks national day on Guam with calls for peace

    Guam Pacific Daily News 10 Oct 2023
    “Our two islands share a deep bond stemming from our Austronesian roots, and the CHamoru people of Guam and the Taiwanese Aborigines continue to preserve this relationship through cross-cultural ...
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    Knowing the Malays

    Malaysia Today 08 Oct 2023
    Ranjit Singh Malhi, Malaysiakini ... However, this “Out-of-Sundaland” hypothesis has been repudiated by studies using whole genome sequencing, which has found that all ISEA populations had genes originating from the aboriginal Taiwanese ... .
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    The first-timer’s guide to the Golden Melody Awards & Festival 2023

    NME 12 Jun 2023
    ... has its finger on the pulse of Taiwanese and Chinese music as a whole. Beyond Mandarin, the GMAs also has categories that spotlight and award works made in Taiwanese, Hakka and aboriginal languages.
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    The Liberty Times Editorial: Siraya ruling step in right direction

    Taipei Times 07 Nov 2022
    ... by Han Taiwanese ... In 1994, then-president Lee Teng-hui (李登輝) employed “Taiwanese aborigines” as the indigenous groups’ official name, and further made “four great ethnic groups” constitutional.
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    The myth of Taiwan as a Pacific nation

    Asiatimes 01 Nov 2022
    A woman wears a face mask with a Taiwanese flag design as protection against Covid-19, March 30, 2020 ... The historical ties between the Taiwanese aborigines and other Pacific Islanders are well documented.
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    A Chinese invasion of Taiwan is coming

    The Spectator 30 Oct 2022
    This month, at the 20th National Party Congress of the Chinese Communist party, Xi Jinping was elected to a third term as chairman ... The Qing disavowed Taiwan, and so Perry concluded a treaty with a Taiwanese aboriginal chief instead of with Beijing ... .
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    Scientists Prove Legends of “Negritos” on Taiwan

    Ancient Origins 10 Oct 2022
    According to history books, the ancient lineage of hunter-gatherers died out 5,000 years ago when they were absorbed into the Neolithic farming cultures, from which modern Taiwanese aborigines descended.
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    Other kinds of wine

    Watauga Democrat 24 Aug 2022
    When you say wine, you think of grapes, and you’re not wrong ... Here are some other kinds of wine to look for. Fruits ... Nuts ... Rice ... Millet ... It’s a key part of Taiwanese aboriginal rituals such as the millet festival, black rice festival and harvest festival ... .
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    Pelosi's visit to Taiwan pressures China to save face: 'Why stir the pot?' — Mary Chao

    Burlington County Times 03 Aug 2022
    The island was already inhabited by local Taiwanese who had migrated from the Fujian province of China some 400 years earlier, as well as by aborigines ... for the cause of Taiwanese independence.
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    Mermaid Parade, Bigfoot Festival, and Jimmy O. Yang: 10 things to do this week

    The Oregonian 27 Jul 2022
    Li’s music reflects her transformation of processes and concepts in Chinese phonology, Taiwanese chamber and aboriginal music, Asian traditional arts, literature, and Buddhism into a compositional technique for solo, chamber, and orchestra.

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