Arikun people
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Arikun | |
|---|---|
 Portrait of the Plains Indigenous People in Pipa, Puli, possibly an Arukun. | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| Nantou, Taichung, and Changhua in Taiwan. | |
| Languages | |
| Arikun (previously), Taiwanese, Mandarin | |
| Religion | |
| Animism, Taoism, Buddhism, Christianity | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Hoanya, Lloa |
Arikun is a group of Austronesian indigenous Formosan people[1] living from the western plain to central basin of Taiwan, especially. They have lived through the Dutch colonization of Taiwan, as well as the Manchurian occupation during the Qing dynasty.
Arikun people along with Lloa people used to be classified as a subgroup of Hoanya people, but this concept has been rejected by some scholars, as the name "Hoanya" seems to be a derogatory exonym from huan-á (Southern Min: "the barbarians") by the Chinese immigrants.[2][3]
In the 19th century, Arikun people were invited by indigenous people living in Puli, Nantou, to migrate there, along with many other plain indigenous peoples from western Taiwan, including the Lloa people. Nowadays, the inhabitants of the eastern and southeastern parts of Puli are mostly descendants of Arukun and Lloa people.[4]
Language
Some comparison of the words from Arikun communities with those from Lloa as compile by Ogawa (2006):[5]
| PAn | Arikun | Lloa | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tausa Mato | Tausa Talakey | Dovaha | Tirosen | ||
| *maCa | matha, masa | miju | masa | masa | "eye" |
| *qalima | pira, pila, pilat, pilas | pira | pirya, pidjet, piza | "hand" | |
| *quluh | ulu, uru, unung | ulu | ulu | uru, udzu, ulu | "head" |
| *Sikan | sikan | tskan | spkan, sikkan | "fish" | |
| *qiNaS, *bulaN | bulas | itat | "moon" | ||
| *siNaR | iza, idzak | ilaha | "sun" | ||
| *asa, *esa | mesa, misa | misha | hiparya | lisat, kipara, kipala | "one" |
| *telu | misu, miru | mishi | myateru | tilo, tsinlo, myaterun, miatelu | "three" |
| *Sepat | mipal, mipat, mipas | mishaha | myapa | ipa, apa, sipute | "four" |
| *lima | hima, mi-lim, lima | mintai | myaru | lima, mialima-fun, malima-hon | "five" |
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