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The naming system varies greatly depending on the particular tribes. Some tribes do not have family names, at least as part of the personal name. Under the strong influence of Chinese culture and forces of cultural assimilation brought by Han settlers in the 17th century, the Indigenous Taiwanese have gradually adopted Han names. In the 17th ...
Taiwanese indigenous peoples, also known as Formosans, Native Taiwanese or Austronesian Taiwanese, [3] [4] and formerly as Taiwanese aborigines, Takasago people or Gaoshan people, [5] are the indigenous peoples of Taiwan, with the nationally recognized subgroups numbering about 600,303 or 3% of the island's population.
The Taroko people (Chinese: 太魯閣族; pinyin: Tàilǔgézú), also known as Truku people, are an Indigenous Taiwanese people. Taroko is also the name of the area of Taiwan where the Taroko reside. The Executive Yuan, Republic of China has officially recognized the Taroko since 15 January 2004. The Taroko are the 12th aboriginal group in ...
Taiwanese people [I] are the citizens and nationals of the Republic of China (ROC) and those who reside in an overseas diaspora from the entire Taiwan Area.The term also refers to natives or inhabitants of the island of Taiwan and its associated islands who may speak Sinitic languages (Mandarin, Hokkien, Hakka) or the indigenous Taiwanese languages as a mother tongue but share a common culture ...
This was approximately 37.1% of Taiwan's total indigenous population, making them the largest indigenous group. [2] The Amis are primarily fishermen due to their coastal location. They traditionally had a matrilineal kinship system, by which inheritance and property pass through the maternal line, and children are considered born to the mother ...
The Atayal people number around 90,000, approximately 15.9% of Taiwan's total indigenous population, making them the third-largest indigenous group. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The preferred endonym is "Tayal" [ citation needed ] , although official English translations of documents supplied by the Taiwanese government name them as "Atayal".
العربية; 閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú; Башҡортса; Español; Esperanto; فارسی; Français; 客家語 / Hak-kâ-ngî; 한국어; हिन्दी
The Tsou (Tsou: Cou; Chinese: 鄒; pinyin: Zōu; Wade–Giles: Tsou) are an indigenous people of central southern Taiwan. They are an Austronesian ethnic group. They reside in Chiayi County and Nantou County. The Tsou numbered around 6,000, approximately 1.19% of Taiwan's total Indigenous population, making them the seventh-largest indigenous ...