Taioaan
Taioaan (Taiwan) si oar Thaepeeng-viuu saihvoa cidkuun tøfsu zoseeng ee zerngti sidthea, kab Tiongkog cikafn keq cidtiaau Of Zuykaw. Y køq høxzøx Formosa, si axn Portugal-guo (Ilha) Formosa laai`ee, iesux si "Byle (Tør)", Taioaan-tør, iaqsi Taioaan pwntør.
Itpvoaf kofng'ee Taioaan-tør haam cidkoar lii hayhvoa bøo hng ee jinkafng-tør kab soasvoax, khunsyn terng khoarn tøexheeng, bøo haam Hoefsiøf Tør, Angthaau Su, kab Phvi'oo Kuntør terng khoarn khaq hng ee tøfsu.
Tøexhøxmiaa
"Taioaan" si Siraya-guo laai`ee. (Tayuan / Tayoan)
"Formosa" cyn tngg sikafn si Seviuu tuix Taioaan cit'sofzai zw'iaux ee høxmiaa. Taioaan Jidpurn sitai khaisie tvia eng Jidpurn-oe ee Lømafji "Taiwan", mxkøq kaux Ciern'au zhokii Seviuu ee bunciofng oannar køq koarnsix eng "Formosa".
Ti sengbut hagmiaa tiofng, na Taioaan hoat'hien ee budzerng tvia eng "formosanus" iah si "formosana" zøx zefngsiøfmiaa (種小名). Na si "formosa" (byle) zøx zefngsiøfmiaa, ciu bøo-itteng tuix tøexhøxmiaa sor hø`ee.
Formosa iah Taioaan ygoa, kithvaf piawsi Taioaan ee jixsuu køq u Taixoaan (大員), Takasago, Taccasanga, tefngterng.
Taioaan ma u laang zhengho si Pøftør (寶島).
Tøexlie
Taioaan ee suokuix bøchviu huixto khaq koaan ee kokto hunbeeng. Y ee unto zhaputtøf ti 6-to kaux 36-to tiongkafn. Øexsae korng si suokuix-juu-zhwn, cyn sek'hap laang toax ee sofzai.
Taiwan
- Taioaan in Modern Literal Taiwanese
- 臺灣 is the officially encouraged form
- See Taai-oaan (Harnji) for more details
- About 180 km east of coastal Fujian (Hokkiexn Serng, which lies across the Of Zuykaw).
- To the south, the island of Taiwan is separated from the Philippine island of Luzon by the 250 km-wide Luzon Strait.
- The true derivation of the name "Taiwan" is actually from the ethnonym of a tribe in the southwest part of the island. (Mair (2003): How to Forget Your Mother Tongue and Remember Your National Language)