Hoanya people explained

The Hoanya 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 ("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 in Hokkien, which originally came from a weak form of kiáⁿ or káⁿ and today survives in Hokkien as the diminutive suffix . Huán-nià (Chinese: 番仔) is attested in the Dictionario Hispanico Sinicum (1626-1642)[4] and use of the obsolete -iá suffix is also recorded in Medhurst's 1832 Hokkien dictionary.[5] The modern form of the aforementioned word in Taiwanese Hokkien is Hoan-á, 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

Notes and References

  1. Web site: China–Taiwan Ethnologue.
  2. Ang . Kaim . 2021 . 「Hoanya」族名辯證及其周遭族群 . The Debating of the Ethnic Name 'Hoanya' and its Surrounding Ethnic Groups . Taiwan History Research . 22 . 4 . 1–40.
  3. Web site: Chen . I-Chen . 2019-11-20 . 錯置的名字:(╳洪雅Hoanya╳)羅亞Lloa、阿立昆Arikun . Misplaced Names: (Hoanya) Lloa, Arikun . 2023-08-06 . Indigenous Sight . Indigenous Peoples Cultural Foundation.
  4. Book: Dominican Order of Preachers, O.P. . Dictionario Hispánico Sinicum . National Tsing Hua University Press . . 1626–1642 . Lee . Fabio Yuchung (李毓中) . 2018 Republished in Taiwan . . . 569 [PDF] / 545 [As Written] . . Dominican Order . Chen . Tsung-jen (陳宗仁) . José . Regalado Trota . Caño . José Luis Ortigosa.
  5. Book: Medhurst, Walter Henry . Walter Henry Medhurst

    . A Dictionary of the Hok-këèn Dialect of the Chinese Language: According to the Reading and Colloquial Idioms: Containing about 12,000 Characters . East India Press . 1832 . Macau . 736 . Walter Henry Medhurst . English, Hokkien.