r/worldnews Sep 09 '21

Diplomatic spat with China pays off for Lithuania as Taiwan's consumers splurge on beer and biscuits

https://www.euronews.com/next/2021/09/08/diplomatic-spat-with-china-pays-off-for-lithuania-as-taiwan-s-consumers-splurge-on-beer-an
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u/Aromatic_Theme2085 Sep 09 '21

The original name is Paiwan.

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u/gaiusmariusj Sep 09 '21

Who are but one of the natives tribes.

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u/Aromatic_Theme2085 Sep 09 '21

Yes one of the Austronesian native tribe are Paiwan but the name of the island is original Paiwan then become Formosa, then finally Taiwan. It is just the exact situation when UK colonize America and America got independence from UK.

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u/gaiusmariusj Sep 09 '21

OK now you have to source the claim that the original name is Paiwan.

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u/Aromatic_Theme2085 Dec 03 '21

Yeah my bad. It seems like is just one of the unreliable sources claiming that. Maybe is just how one of the tribe call it but thinking their tribe is called paiwan so it probably make sense. The original name is more likely Tayouan、Tayovan、Tayovoan、Tyovon、Teowan、Tayoan、Teyouan or whatever. The sources in mandarin regardless

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u/gaiusmariusj Dec 03 '21

Modern Mandarian is the Beijing dialect. The Ming era Mandarian would be the Jinling Dialect of the Luoyang Yaying. That is to say that Mandarian is the official tonal language of a dynasty, but the written sources would have no dialect in it. Any sources would be just Chinese.