page_title: Taivoan people
section_title: Nomenclature
hierarchical_section_title: Taivoan people / Nomenclature
caption_attribution_description: 中文（繁體）‎: 清乾隆21（1756）年灣裡社大馬役賣盡根契。
context_page_description: The Taivoan or Tevorangh people or Shisha, also written Taivuan and Tevorang, Tivorang, Tivorangh, are an indigenous people in Taiwan. The Taivoan originally settled around hill and basin areas in Tainan, especially in the Yujing Basin, which area the Taivoan called Tamani, later transliterated into Japanese Tamai and later borrowed as Chinese Yujing. The Taivoan historically called themselves Taivoan, Taibowan, Taiburan or Shisha as endonyms.
  According to some scholars, there should be more than 20,000 Taivoan people nowadays, estimated based on the records during Japanese rule of Taiwan, ranked as the second largest non-status indigenous people in Taiwan, only second to Makatao people.
  Many scholars propose that the name of the island Taiwan actually came from the indigenous people's name, as the pronunciation of Taivoan is similar to Tayovan, the people that the Dutch met around the coast of Anping or the bay around Anping, which later became the name Taiwan. Also the Taivoan established a settlement called Taiouwang, which is the only indigenous community that sounds like Taiwan.
context_section_description: Many Taivoan names and surnames are found in the Sinckan Manuscripts, mainly from the manuscripts found in the communities of Matau, Wanli, and Tevorangh.
caption: A Sinckan Manuscript dated in 1756 found in Wanli, written bilingually in Taivoan and Chinese. The Chinese name of the Taivoan contractor Tauvaija was stamped at the end of the contract.
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