The Hoanya ( Chinese: 洪雅族; pinyin: Hóngyǎzú) 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.
Scholars like Kaim Ang suggest the name of the people, Hoanya, comes from Taiwanese Hokkien Hoan-iá ( 番仔, 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 ( 仔) in Hokkien, which originally came from a weak form of kiáⁿ or káⁿ ( 囝) and today survives in Hokkien as the diminutive suffix -á ( 仔). Huán-nià (番仔) is attested in the Dictionario Hispanico Sinicum (1626-1642) [4] and use of the obsolete -iá ( 仔) suffix is also recorded in Medhurst's 1832 Hokkien dictionary. [5] The modern form of the aforementioned word in Taiwanese Hokkien is Hoan-á ( 番仔), 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.
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