{"id":8926,"date":"2024-05-21T19:22:44","date_gmt":"2024-05-21T11:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/?p=8926"},"modified":"2024-05-21T15:25:48","modified_gmt":"2024-05-21T07:25:48","slug":"chinese-characters-no-longer-required-for-taiwan-aborigine-names","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2024\/chinese-characters-no-longer-required-for-taiwan-aborigine-names\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese characters no longer required for Taiwan Aborigine names"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week Taiwan&#8217;s legislature passed an amendment stating that members of Taiwan&#8217;s tribes will no longer be forced to adopt names written in Chinese characters. Instead, their names can be presented solely in romanization if so desired. Thus, at least in this specialized category, Chinese characters have been stripped of their primacy and romanization is officially allowed to stand on its own (not appear only in conjunction with Chinese characters). <\/p>\n<p>Source: L&#236;yu&#224;n t&#333;nggu&#242;: yu&#225;nzh&#249;m&#237;n sh&#275;nfen zh&#232;ngji&#224;n &#8212; k&#283; zh&#464; xi&#283; p&#299;ny&#299;n z&#250;m&#237;ng (<a href=\"https:\/\/udn.com\/news\/story\/7314\/7964352\">&#31435;&#38498;&#36890;&#36942;&#65306;&#21407;&#20303;&#27665;&#36523;&#20998;&#35657;&#20214; &#21487;&#21482;&#23531;&#25340;&#38899;&#26063;&#21517;<\/a>), <em>United Daily News<\/em>, May 15, 2024<\/p>\n<p>Further reading: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2023\/my-bunun-name-is\/\">My Bunun name is&#8230;.<\/a>&#8221; Pinyin News, November 27, 2023.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=61613\">Writing indigenous names in Taiwan<\/a>.&#8221; Language Log, December 10, 2023. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week Taiwan&#8217;s legislature passed an amendment stating that members of Taiwan&#8217;s tribes will no longer be forced to adopt names written in Chinese characters. Instead, their names can be presented solely in romanization if so desired. Thus, at least &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2024\/chinese-characters-no-longer-required-for-taiwan-aborigine-names\/\">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":[42,96,104,15,19,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aborigine-languages","category-aborigines","category-alphabet","category-chinese-characters","category-romanization","category-taiwan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8926","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=8926"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8928,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8926\/revisions\/8928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}