Siraya

Note 15: For more on gender in Siraya society, see Kang Peite, "Culture and Culture Change of the Siraya under the Dutch East India Company" (Ph.D. diss.,

How Taiwan Became Chinese 2006

Airportman said that in Hsiaoliin village, the Siraya tribe is almost vanished; now everything is buried in the mud: the temples, the Daman tribe culture and the night ceremony the tribe tried to revive in the past few decades.

Global Voices in English » Taiwan: The future for the aboriginal people after Typhoon Morakot 2009

Since the original sound was from the Siraya language, its original form is presumed to have been the "v" sound in English; i.e. without the Dutch soft puff.

Paper on Parade: Hizen Porcelain and Global Trade in the era of Koxinga Michael Turton 2009

Steve Crook with tale of Siraya language activist Jimmy Huang... and the list of museums in Taiwan.

Archive 2009-01-01 Michael Turton 2009

Many Siraya were eager to align themselves with this power and ready to deploy it against their enemies.

Reconstructing post-1949 Nationalist History in Taiwan Michael Turton 2009

However, the original Siraya sound must have had a strong stress on the "i" ("yi") sound because the Dutch sometimes denoted the whole word as "Tayovan" (the Hanzi transcription in ancient documents was "臺窩員", based on the Holo pronuciation.)

Paper on Parade: Hizen Porcelain and Global Trade in the era of Koxinga Michael Turton 2009

It also gave Siraya a means to make changes within their own society.

Reconstructing post-1949 Nationalist History in Taiwan Michael Turton 2009

After all, the colonizers are setting up these reward systems and putting things in the "language" literally with the Dutch missionaries and the Siraya of the natives.

Reconstructing post-1949 Nationalist History in Taiwan Michael Turton 2009

Indigenous Siraya people did not resent and reject the Dutch wholesale.

Reconstructing post-1949 Nationalist History in Taiwan Michael Turton 2009

I can see how the Siraya ['taIvOn] got converted into the Holo [taI 33 w@n 24].

Paper on Parade: Hizen Porcelain and Global Trade in the era of Koxinga Michael Turton 2009