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    Siraya is a Formosan language spoken until the end of the 19th century by the indigenous Siraya people of Taiwan, derived from Proto-Siraya. Some scholars...
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    The Siraya (Chinese: 西拉雅族; pinyin: Xīlāyǎ Zú) people are a Taiwanese indigenous people. The Siraya settled flat coastal plains in the southwest part of...
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  • Look up Siraya in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Siraya may refer to: Siraya people, of Taiwan Siraya language, their Austronesian language, now extinct...
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    Li (2010) considers Proto-Siraya belongs to East Formosan languages, along with Kavalanic and Amis languages. The Proto-Siraya language is the reconstructed...
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    Amis, and the extinct Siraya language. This grouping is supported by both Robert Blust and Paul Jen-kuei Li. Li considers the Siraya-speaking area in the...
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    dialect of Siraya, but now more evidence has shown that they should be classified as separate languages. The corpora previously regarded as Siraya like the...
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    extant documents written in Sinckan; they are important in the study of Siraya and Taivoan culture, and Taiwanese history in general although there are...
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    Kavalan tribe moved southward to Hualien County and Taitung County; and the Siraya tribe moved to Taitung. However, relocation could not prevent the Plains...
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    sometimes considered to be a Siraya village is mainly based on George Candidius' inclusion "Tefurang" in the eight Siraya villages that he claimed all...
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  • Ali-zu is an assimilated Siraya deity that is worshiped by former plains people in southern Taiwan. This god of fertility has been incorporated into the...
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  • South India, the Moso of Yunnan and Sichuan in southwestern China, the Siraya of Taiwan, and the Minangkabau of western Sumatra. Among indigenous people...
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    formally petitioned the government, see Lee 2003), Kakabu, Makatao, Pazeh, Siraya, and Taivoan. The act of petitioning for recognized status, however, does...
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    significance, its library of dictionaries and business transactions documents the Siraya language spoken by the native inhabitants of the region during Dutch rule...
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    Siraya National Scenic Area (Chinese: 西拉雅國家風景區; pinyin: Xīlāyǎ Guójiā Fēngjǐng Qū) is the newest of Taiwan's national scenic areas. It was designated by...
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    October 6th. The Taivoan Night Ceremony in Liuchongxi, along with four other Siraya Night Ceremonies in Tainan — Beitouyang, Kabuasua, Fuxing Palace, and Danei...
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    *emnem [*Nem 'three' is reflected in Basay, Siraya and Makatao]; pAN *kawaS 'year, sky' replaced by *CawiN)   Siraya Walu-Siwaish (*walu 'eight' and *Siwa 'nine'...
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  • Cambridge University Press. Shepherd, J.R. (1995). Marriage and Mandatory Abortion among the 17th-century Siraya. American Anthropological Association....
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  • forms are bound while the neutral and locative ones are free (unbound). The Siraya personal pronouns below are from Adelaar (1997). The Taivoan personal pronouns:...
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    According to one theory, the name Takau originates from the aboriginal Siraya language and translates as "bamboo forest". According to another theory...
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  • Titan in 2036. KSLV-III – KARI – South Korea Long March 9 – CASC – China Siraya – TASA – Taiwan Amur – Roscosmos – Russia Tronador II-250 – CONAE – Argentina...
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  • evidences suggested that Niaosung Culture was directly relative to the Siraya people, an aboriginal tribe which is still living in this area. There is...
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  • Kavalanic Basay † Kavalan Luilang † Ami Amis Sakizaya Siraiyac Siraya † Taivoan †...
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    District in Kaohsiung City, Taiwan. As driven by Chinese immigrants and Siraya, Taivoan people started to emigrate from Tainan to Kaohsiung in the early...
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  • Kaohsiung. Banana colloquial speech is mainly circulated among Taivoan and Siraya communities in hill areas. Most Han ethnic groups are not familiar with...
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  • being the province with the most. The Mai 買 surname is only found among Siraya Taiwan Plains Aboriginals in Taiwan and among Hui people in mainland China...
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  • need to obtain consent from their spouse and guardian respectively. The Siraya people were observed to practice mandatory abortion by Dutch colonizers...
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    Siraya: Kuwa; Taivoan: Kuba, Kuva), literally "the Public Hall" in Taiwanese Hokkien, is a temple or shrine where indigenous peoples like the Siraya,...
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    Choshui River Qauqaut: mid-stream of Takiri River (Liwuhsi in Chinese) Siraya: Chianan Plains Makatau: Pingtung Bunun: Hsinyi (信義鄉) in Nantou County Paiwan:...
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  • Taipei City and Yilan County Penghu National Scenic Area in Penghu County Siraya National Scenic Area in Chiayi County and Tainan City Southwest Coast National...
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    of Taiwanese aborigines, the Siraya. In 1624, the VOC occupied Tayuan (modern day Anping, Tainan). In the past, the Siraya indigenous tribe called this...
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