Talk:Naming customs of Taiwanese aborigines

message: I removed a section which claims the romanization of 許世楷 (Koh Se-Kai) is based on Japanese reading of the characters. Koh Se-Kai is exactly the Taiwanese (Min-nan) reading of the characters, and 許 never read Ko in Japanese to the best of my knowledge. Paul Chang 12:55, 27 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I must admit I don't know much about the Japanese language, but doesn't 許 always read きょ for Chinese names? At least it seems to be the case for Chinese historical figures. (I haven't seen an exception in the Japanese Wikipedia, except Koh Se-Kai.) Maybe he carried the Taiwanese language spelling of his name to Japan? Paul Chang 12:27, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

text: According to , Kyo is one of the On readings. But from the Japanese wiki article, his name is こー・せかい.  This is Kō, not Kyo. Oniows 23:39, 30 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for the information. So it is an interesting coincidence. Paul Chang 15:29, 1 June 2007 (UTC)
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message: About 90% of the naming conventions for people in Taiwan are the same as those in Chinese names, so I have restructured the article to start off with a link to Chinese names, and then go into detail about where the conventions are different.
Also, I don't think this is true....
::When Romanized, some Taiwanese may prefer to keep the original order while others reverse their names to match the European convention, which is the given name before the family name.
::: No, that's absolutely true. English-language naming conventions in Taiwan diverge immensely from Chinese ones.  As a hypothetical, someone named (in Pinyin) Su Huiqin, for example, could go by: Su Hui-qin, Su Hui-cin, Su Hui-chin, Su Huei-chin, Su Wei-chin, any of the former with So instead of Su, whatever romanization fits for Hakka or Taiwanese, an English name with either Su or So as the family name, any Chinese romanization written in English order (First-names Family-name), a Taiwanese Aboriginal name, and any raft of utter misspellings. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 203.70.89.231 (talk) 07:39, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
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message: I took this out: "Stories abound of close blood relatives assigned different family names, occasionally leading to incest."  What does "stories abound" mean here -- any credible stories?  How does changing names lead to incest?  Unless there is something more to explain this story, it sounds like an urban legend, and not a particularly believable one at that. - Nat Krause 07:39, 5 Jan 2005 (UTC)
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message: The word "Taiwanese" is not simply refers to the Taiwanese aborigines, this article perhaps needs a more precise title such as "Formosan name" or "naming conventions of Taiwanese aborigines".Luuva (talk) 05:51, 7 May 2008 (UTC)
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message: The last sentence of the intro states "As a legacy of the anti-romanisation policy of the past".
What's this "anti-romanization policy" refered to here?  The Latin alphabet is foreign to Taiwan and the governments that had goverend it.  How can there be an "anti-romanization policy"?o (talk) 23:23, 21 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Some latinized writing systems which were invented for some aboriginal languages and Han dialects had already exist in Taiwan for years before the Han Chinese governed the island. These writing systems were later oppressed or prohibited by the Japanese and the early ROC authorities. luuva  (talk) 09:09, 13 October 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: But as I understand it, the system was created by missionaries and the usage was by no means universal.  Neither the Japanese nor ROC proposed an alternative writing system for the various non-official languages.  In this light, their policies should be better understood as anti-dialects rather than anti-romanization. o (talk) 12:19, 13 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Anti-romanization policy?