Hoanya people
The Hoanya (Template:Zh) are a Taiwanese Aboriginal people who live primarily in Changhua County, Chiayi City, Nantou County, and near Tainan City.
Their language, Hoanya, is now extinct.[1]
The Lloa people and Arikun people are generally considered to be a part of the Hoanya people.
Etymology
Scholars like Kaim Ang suggest the name of the people, Hoanya, comes from Taiwanese Hokkien Hoan-iá (Template:Wikt-lang, Template:Lit "barbarian"), originally from the perspective of ethnic Chinese referring to non-Chinese, especially historical natives of Taiwan and Southeast Asia.[2][3] The name of the people group retained the obsolete diminutive suffix -iá (Template:Wikt-lang) in Hokkien, which originally came from a weak form of kiáⁿ or káⁿ (Template:Wikt-lang) and today survives in Hokkien as the diminutive suffix -á (Template:Wikt-lang). Huán-nià (Script error: No such module "Lang".) is attested in the Dictionario Hispanico Sinicum (1626-1642)[4] and use of the obsolete -iá (Template:Wikt-lang) suffix is also recorded in Medhurst's 1832 Hokkien dictionary.[5] The modern form of the aforementioned word in Taiwanese Hokkien is Hoan-á (Template:Wikt-lang), which over the centuries took on a derogatory connotation in Taiwan in reference to Taiwanese aboriginal groups in general or to any unreasonable persons. However, the same word, Huan-a, has different connotations in other Hokkien-speaking communities, such as in Fujian (China), the Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia.
See also
References
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