Beinan, Taitung22°47′N121°07′E / 22.783°N 121.117°E / 22.783; 121.117Beinan Township or Peinan Township (Chinese: 卑南鄕; pinyin: Bēinán Xiāng; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Pi-lâm) is a rural township in Taitung County, Taiwan. It has a population of 16,798 as of February 2023. It is home to the Puyuma and Rukai peoples. NameThis southeastern region of Taiwan was originally dominated by the Puyuma people. The township is named in Puyuma in honor of chief Pinara.
Puyuma languageThe Puyuma language or Pinuyumayan (Chinese: 卑南語; pinyin: Bēinányǔ), is the language of the Puyuma, an indigenous people of Taiwan. It is a language of the Austronesian family. Most speakers are older adults. Puyuma is one of the more divergent of the Austronesian languages and falls outside reconstructions of Proto-Austronesian. DialectsThe internal classification of Puyuma dialects below is from Ting (1978).
A-MeiTaiwanese singer and record producer (born 1972)A-MeiChinese阿妹Websitestarmei.comKulilay Amit (Chinese: 張惠妹; pinyin: Zhāng Huìmèi; born 9 August 1972), better known by her stage name A-Mei, is a Taiwanese singer and record producer of Puyuma descent. Born in eastern Taiwan, she made her debut in 1996.
Taiwanese indigenous peoplesEthnic groupTaiwanese indigenous peoples, formerly called Taiwanese aborigines, are the indigenous peoples of Taiwan, with the nationally recognized subgroups numbering about 600,303 or 3% of the country's population. This total is increased to more than 800,000 if the indigenous peoples of the plains in Taiwan are included, pending future official recognition. When including those of mixed ancestry, such a number is possibly more than a million.
Taitung CityJapanese nameKanji台東市KanaたいとうしKyūjitai臺東市Taitung City (Chinese: 臺東市; pinyin: Táidōng Shì; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Tâi-tang-chhī) is a county-administered city and the county seat of Taitung County, Taiwan. It lies on the southeast coast of Taiwan facing the Pacific Ocean, southwest of the Beinan River estuary. Taitung City is the most populous subdivision of Taitung County and it is one of the major cities on the east coast of the island.
Chinese languageChinese (spoken: simplified Chinese: 汉语; traditional Chinese: 漢語; pinyin: Hànyǔ, written: 中文; Zhōngwén) is a collection of language varieties containing almost all Sinitic languages except Macro-Bai languages, natively spoken by the Han Chinese and some ethnic minorities in Greater China, as well as by communities of the overseas Chinese.
Taiwanese HokkienVariety of Hokkien spoken in TaiwanTaiwanese speechTraditional Chinese臺灣話Tâi-lôTâi-uân-uē / Tâi-uân-uāTaiwanese languageTraditional Chinese臺語Tâi-lôTâi-gí / Tâi-gír / Tâi-gúTaiwanese HokkienTraditional Chinese臺灣福建話Tâi-lôTâi-uân Hok-kiàn-uē / Hok-kiàn-uāTaiwan TaigiTraditional Chinese臺灣台語Tâi-lôTâi-uân Tâi-gí / Tâi-uân Tâi-gú / Tâi-uân Tâi-gírTaiwanese Hokkien ( , US also ) or Taiwanese (Chinese: 臺灣話; Tâi-lô: Tâi-uân-ūe), also called Taigi (臺語; Tâi-gí/gú/gír), Taiwanese Taigi (臺灣台語; Tâi-uân Tâi-gí/gú/gír), Taiwanese Southern Min (臺灣閩南語; Tâi-uân Bân-lâm-gí/gú/gír), Hoklo and Holo, is a variety of the Hokkien language spoken natively by more than 70 percent of the population of Taiwan.
Taitung CountyTaitung (Wade–Giles: Tʻai-tung; lit. 'Eastern part of Taiwan') is the third largest county in Taiwan, located primarily on the island's southeastern coast and also including Green Island, Orchid Island and Lesser Orchid Island. The seat is located in Taitung City. NameWhile its name means "Eastern Taiwan", it is also known as "Houshan" (Chinese: 後山; pinyin: hòushān; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: āu-soaⁿ) by many of the locals, meaning behind the mountains or the back mountains.
TaiwanCountry in East AsiaTaiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia. The main island of Taiwan, formerly known as Formosa, lies between the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the northeast, and the Philippines to the south.
PinyinRomanization scheme for Standard ChineseScheme for the Chinese Phonetic AlphabetSimplified Chinese汉语拼音方案Traditional Chinese漢語拼音方案Literal meaningscheme of spelled Han language sounds This article contains phonetic transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see .
Pe̍h-ōe-jīRomanization system of Southern Min Chinese languagesPe̍h-ōe-jī ( ; Taiwanese Hokkien: 白話字, pronounced, lit. 'vernacular writing'; POJ), also known as Church Romanization, is an orthography used to write variants of HokkienSouthern Min, particularly Taiwanese and Amoy Hokkien. It is widely employed as one of the writing systems for Southern Min. During its peak, it had hundreds of thousands of readers.
Standard ChineseStandard form of Mandarin ChineseGuoyuTraditional Chinese國語Simplified Chinese国语Literal meaningNational languageHuayuTraditional Chinese華語Simplified Chinese华语Literal meaningChinese languageThis article contains IPA phonetic symbols. Without proper , you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Unicode characters.
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