{"id":2104,"date":"2009-04-18T23:10:21","date_gmt":"2009-04-18T15:10:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/?p=2104"},"modified":"2009-04-24T11:58:15","modified_gmt":"2009-04-24T03:58:15","slug":"signs-in-atayal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2009\/signs-in-atayal\/","title":{"rendered":"signs in Atayal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During my recent trip to <a href=\"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2009\/wulai-or-something-like-that\/\">Wulai<\/a> (Ulay in Atayal) I was pleased to see at least a few signs in the Atayal language.<\/p>\n<p>This one &#8212; no Chinese characters! no English! &#8212; appears on the fronts of several stores on the Old Street that have water from hot springs piped into tubs there. I asked a couple of shop owners about this. They clearly had only vague notions about the signs being for hot springs; they couldn&#8217;t read the signs themselves. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/news_photos\/2009\/04\/habun_tngtong.jpg\" alt=\"habun_tngtong\" title=\"habun_tngtong\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2105\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/news_photos\/2009\/04\/habun_tngtong.jpg 480w, https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/news_photos\/2009\/04\/habun_tngtong-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This sign takes the form of personal pledges for a healthy lifestyle. Most have to do with [not] drinking.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/news_photos\/2009\/04\/atayal_sign.jpg\" alt=\"The top line reads 'glgan smru nbuw qwaw gaga na qnhan'. It's followed by 6 numbered points in romanized Atayal and then Mandarin in Chinese characters. Finally, it's identified as being from the local government as well as the Rotary Association and other groups.\" title=\"atayal_sign\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2106\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/news_photos\/2009\/04\/atayal_sign.jpg 480w, https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/news_photos\/2009\/04\/atayal_sign-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Gaga<\/em> is the Atayal word for traditions\/customs\/rules (especially those handed down from their ancestors). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During my recent trip to Wulai (Ulay in Atayal) I was pleased to see at least a few signs in the Atayal language. This one &#8212; no Chinese characters! no English! &#8212; appears on the fronts of several stores on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2009\/signs-in-atayal\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,96,104,28,19,3],"tags":[619,618,617],"class_list":["post-2104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aborigine-languages","category-aborigines","category-alphabet","category-languages","category-romanization","category-taiwan","tag-atayal","tag-taipei-county","tag-wulai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2104"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2187,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2104\/revisions\/2187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}