Differences between Taiwanese Culture and Chinese Culture

[hansioux]

@afterspivak

Let’s start with language. There are, as @hansioux knows, some words in Taiwanese Hokkien that are brought in from Siraya and are therefore not understood in places like Fujian.

Aboriginal loanwords in Taigi (Taiwanese Holo)

I came across this page today: peoplenews.tw/news/113fdedc- … 1e4281eddc It listed many Taigi words that I had no idea were Aboriginal loanwords in Taigi. There are a lot of place names that are loaned from Aboriginal languages, such as Taiwan, Madou, Dalongdong, Guishan, Shekou and so on. Other types of loanwords are a lot less obvious. These loanwords primarily come in two forms, phonological or borrowing the meaning of the original. In English, junk and wok would be phonological, and lon…