Atayal

plural Atayals

1. A member of a particular Austronesian people of Taiwan.

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   We passed through a large Hakka town (Hakka is a Chinese language, one of the three official languages in Taiwan; more on that in later posts) and then began to pitch and roll through a series of white-knuckling switchbacks up Hsinchu County Road 22. About an hour later we landed (which is really the only appropriate verb) in the village of Cingcyuan, an Atayal aboriginal community.[…] That being said, the Atayal of Cingcyuan are among the friendliest people I have met. I wandered through the village market and bought a homemade spicy sausage from a woman tending a barbecue.[…] “They are very innocent people,” said Yen Yen “And very generous.” I agreed, wondering when I could come back to Cingcyuan.

   2011 April 28, John MacMillan, “A day in Cingcyuan”, in a tiny revolution (Blog), archived from the original on 07 Feb 2024

1. Their Austronesian language, which uses the Latin alphabet.