Savungaz Valincinan: Difference between revisions

Savungaz used the Han name '''Li Pinhan''' ({{lang-zh|p=Lǐ Pǐnhán}}) prior to exclusively using her Bunun name.<ref name="yang">{{cite news |last1=Yang |first1=Stephanie |last2=Shen |first2=David |date=2 May 2023 |title=Some Indigenous people in Taiwan want to drop their Chinese names: 'That history has nothing to do with mine' |url=https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2023-05-02/taiwan-indigenous-chinese-name-change |access-date=29 February 2024 |work=Los Angeles Times}}</ref><ref name="wulian">{{cite news |last1=Wu |first1=Liangyi |title=《太陽花學運lǐ pǐn hán幕後推手系列報導10》號召原民參與 李品涵場控維安 |url=https://www.tipp.org.tw/news_article.asp?F_ID=40405&PageSize=15&Page=1996&startTime=&endTime=&FT_No=&NSubject_No=&SelectSubject=&Subject_No=&SubSubject_No=&TA_No=&Orderby=&KeyWords=&Order=&IsSelect= |access-date=29 February 2024 |work=Taiwan Indigenous Peoples Portal |agency=自由時報 |date=10 April 2014}}</ref> Her [[Bunun language|Bunun-language]] name, is Savungaz Valincinan, add this language uses the Latin script. It is [[transliterated]] as {{Lang|zh|撒丰安·瓦林及那}} ({{zh|p=Sāfēngān Wǎlínjínà}}) using [[Chinese characters]].<ref name="yang" /> Because{{explain|there's no obvious reason for this explained in the text, please add it}} of this transliteration, she is often erroneously referred to as "Miss Sa" ({{lang-zh|撒小姐|p=Sā xiǎojiě}}).{{efn|Chinese speakers mistake the three-character 撒丰安 "Savungaz" as a [[Chinese name|three-character full name]], with 撒 "Sa" as her surname<ref name="chenw" /> (xìngshì; 姓氏). With the remainder, 丰安 "Vungaz", being her given name, (míng; 名). Her given name, written in Chinese, would be perceived as Sa Feng-an to those unfamiliar with Taiwanese Indigenous names.}}<ref name="chenw">{{cite news |last1=Chen |first1=Wanqian |title=原民姓名拼音正名成功 原團：雙語教育開始 |url=https://udn.com/news/story/7321/7561257 |access-date=2 March 2024 |work=聯合新聞網 |agency=Taipei Report |date=9 November 2023 |language=zh-Hant-TW}}</ref> Savungaz argues that the usage of Chinese characters fails to correctly express the popular pronunciation of the traditional names of [[Indigenous Taiwanese people]], with the meaning of Chinese characters leading to the misuse and misunderstanding of their names.<ref name="zhang">{{cite news |last1=Zhang |first1=Huanpeng |last2=Chiu |first2=Marco |date=14 December 2020 |title=尋找篇》追溯根源串起家族記憶 |url=https://alive.businessweekly.com.tw/single/Index/ARTL003003808 |access-date=2 March 2024 |work=alive Taiwan |publisher=Cite Publishing Limited |agency=Business Weekly}}</ref> According to [[Naming customs of Taiwanese aborigines|Bunun naming systems]], the child takes the name of the family elder, which in her case was her grandmother.<ref name="zhang" />