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  Kavalan people - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Legend has it that the Kavalan arrived by sea from the east and that when they saw the stunning beauty of this location, they decided then and there to settle this bountiful land.
The newly arrived Kavalan fought many battles against the local Atayal people and in the end, the Kavalan tribe drove the Atayal tribe into the mountains — true to their name "Kavalan", which means "flatland people".
The earliest record of Kavalan in history was in 1632, when a Spanish ship went astray to this area by a typhoon.
www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Kavalan   (362 words)

  
 Kavalan - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The Kavalan ("People living in the plain") are an indigenous people of Taiwan, part of the larger Taiwanese aborigine ethnic group.
The earliest record of Kavalan in history was in 1632, when a Spaniard ship went astray to this area by a typhoon.
Currently, the largest settlement of Kavalan is Sinshe Village in Fongbin, Hualian.
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Kavalan   (210 words)

  
 TaiwanHeadlines - Features - Museum honors Kavalan
Although the Kavalan people are descendents of some of the earliest inhabitants of Taiwan, they are also, in a way, one of the newest tribes on the island.
In spring and summer, a sea festival is held in which pig offal and wine is cast into the sea as a means of worshipping the ancestors and the gods of the ocean.
The exhibition highlights the fact that Hualian is the new home of the Kavalan, although the tribe originates from much farther north, having migrated down from Yilan County in the 19th century.
english.www.gov.tw /TaiwanHeadlines/index.jsp?print=1&categid=11&recordid=79337   (948 words)

  
 Kavalan people - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Kavalan ("People living in the plain") (Chinese: 噶瑪蘭族) or Kuvalan are an indigenous people of Taiwan, part of the larger Taiwanese aborigine ethnic group.
Legend has it that the Kavalan arrived by sea from the east and that when they saw the stunning beauty of this location, they decided then and there to settle this bountiful land.
The earliest record of Kavalan in history was in 1632, when a Spanish ship went astray to this area by a typhoon.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kavalan   (339 words)

  
 Taiwanese aborigine
Kavalan[?] The Atayal can be divided into Atayal Proper, Sediq and Toroko.
The Amis, Kavalan and Tsou are regarded as "lowland" tribes.
The Puyuma led the Dutch 80Km to the Kavalan Plain where trace amounts of the mineral could be panned from streambeds.
www.fastload.org /ta/Taiwanese_aborigine.html   (3871 words)

  
 Taipei Times - archives   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Lin: The Kavalan people started to push for the official recognition of their own tribe about 10 years ago when Premier Yu Shyi-kun was the Yilan County commissioner.
The Kavalan tribe had managed to preserve their own language and culture until some 10 years ago when they started to integrate with the Ami.
According to our own study, the population of the Kavalan tribe is less than 2,000, with 1,700 of them having expressed their interest in reinstating their tribal identity.
www.taipeitimes.com /News/taiwan/archives/2002/11/18/180024   (737 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Kavalan means the people who live in the plain.
The mixed marriages caused the continuing of Kavalan language such as ²o¤â which means husbands and wives and the continuing of Kavalan custom like ©ÛÂØ±B that a son-in-law has to live in the wife¡¦s home and assume the role of a son.
In 1853, Kavalan people was oppressed by Han people so they moved to Hualien.
140.111.120.2 /eeg/txt/2006616.txt   (411 words)

  
 News Article - ATAYAL - The worldwide voice of the aboriginal tribes of Taiwan
The Kavalan communities in the regions of Ilan, Hualien, and Taitung are celebrating their official recognition by the government as Taiwan's 11th aboriginal group, and the first of the lowland aboriginal groups to obtain official status.
The CIP draft bill called for granting of indigenous status to only some of the Kavalan communities, limited to a list of 1,073 persons who are of Kavalan descent but currently registered erroneously as Amis aborigines in east coast counties.
Belonging to the ancient Indo-Pacific Austronesian ethnic family, the Kavalan people are classified as one of an acknowledged twelve Ping-pu plains aboriginal groups, who lived in the lowlands, river valleys, and coastal areas.
www.atayal.org /NewsView.asp?catID=18   (439 words)

  
 UH Press Journals: Oceanic Linguistics, vol. 41, no. 1 (2002)
The Interpretation of tu and Kavalan Ergativity, 140–158
Kavalan, an Austronesian language spoken in Taiwan, has been variously analyzed as accusative, ergative, and split ergative.
To settle the matter, it is necessary to distinguish canonical transitive clauses from dyadic intransitive clauses.
www.uhpress.hawaii.edu /journals/ol/OL411.html   (1414 words)

  
 Started From the Very Beginning   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Kavalan is an old name of Yi Lan; it is a transliteration because most of Kavalan aboriginals of the Pinpu clan were living here then, also known as the “Hamanan”.
Kavalan Territory and Full Map the 20 year of Daokwan (A.D. The ancient city of Yi Lan, under the officer and the people to make concerted effort, has been built up at the 18 year of Jiachin (1813).
The “Kavalan Town Hall” was set at the East Street of Jiuchon City then, but now it has been non-existed; the original site probably locates the position of the Provincial Yi Lan Hospital, Sinmin Road, Yi Lan City today, where used to be the office of Kavalan in the Chin Dynasty.
library.taiwanschoolnet.org /cyberfair2005/liming/ec01story.htm   (932 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Li-May Sung and Yu-ting Yeh, 2005, "Negation in Kavalan", SEALS XV: papers from the 15th meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society, edited by Paul Sidwell, 83-95, Canberra, Pacific Linguistic.
Li-May Sung and Cheng-chuen Kuo, 2006, "Comparative Constructions in Amis and Kavalan" to be presented at the 16th Annual Meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society (SEALS XVI), Atma Jaya University, Jakarta, 20-21 September 2006.
Li-May Sung, Lihsin Sung and Yu-ting Yeh, 2006, "The Existential Predicate yau in Kavalan", presented at the 18th North America Conference on Chinese Linguistics, June 23-25, 2006, Western Washington University, Bellingham, Washington.
ccms.ntu.edu.tw /~limay/publication.htm   (868 words)

  
 Kavalan Hotel albergo Lotung- Prezzi con gli sconti - Kavalan Hotel Lotung (Kavalan Hotel Hotel Lotung)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
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 Window on Yilan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The section of the Lanyang rivermouth from the Kavalan Bridge to the outlet near the sea, is 1 kilometer long.
In 1972, the Tourism Bureau allocated the area between the Kavalan Bridge to the inlet of the brook as the "Wild Geese/Ducks Refuge".
In 1984, the Executive Yuan further announced it to be the "Lanyang River Nature Conservation Area".
192.83.186.7 /readtw/Yilan/e-wj-i01s.asp?id=C-WJ-I01   (489 words)

  
 Taiwan's Indigenous Peoples
The Kavalan, numbering around 2,000, live in the eastern counties.
Due to their close vicinity to the Amis, the Kavalan's traditional customs were influenced.
The 10,000 Pinuyumayan or Punuyumayan in Taitung County may be subdivided into Jhihben and Nanwang on the basis of slight differences in language and culture.
www.taiwan.com.au /Soccul/People/Compos/200508b.html   (1760 words)

  
 Ethnologue report for language code:ckv
Northeast coast, above Toucheng to Ilan, nearly to Suao, and inland to Tayal language area.
Under 10% of the ethnic group speaks Kavalan.
This web edition of the Ethnologue contains all the content of the print edition and may be cited as:
www.ethnologue.com /show_language.asp?code=ckv   (117 words)

  
 Kavalan Hotel Lotung Taiwan - SPECIAL Discount Rates   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
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 NTHU Linguistics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
More careful work needs to be done on the three extant languages, Pazih, Thao and Kavalan, and three extinct languages, Siraya, Favorlang (dialect of Babuza), and Basay, for which there are some written documents.
Two phonological innovations, (1) merger of *j, *n, and *N as n and (2) split of *k into k and q before *a, are exclusively shared by Basay and Kavalan.
Shared innovations are also found in the sporadic changes in a few lexical items in these two languages.
ling.nthu.edu.tw /news/1108548746.php   (371 words)

  
 Kavalan language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
See IPA chart for English for an English-​based pronunciation key.
Kavalan was formerly spoken in the Northeast coast area of Taiwan by the Kavalan (噶瑪蘭) tribe.
Kavalan is no longer spoken in its original area.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kavalan_language   (107 words)

  
 ETD-db: ETD database
Besides obtaining a knowledge of how an ethnic group has lived peacefully with their tribe men as well as with nature, it is hoped that more thought will be given to the issue of the preservation of missing traditional cultures.
The first part describes the Kavalan people in the time of written history, their migration to Hualien-Taitung area, the successful case of claiming its tribe name ¡§Kavalan¡¨, and the people¡¦s development in modern times.
The paper gives a picture of the traditional culture of the Kavalan people, whose value, thinking, and life style are very different, and who left its rich cultural heritage after having lived on the Lanyang Plain for four hundred years.
thesis.lib.cycu.edu.tw /ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0305106-171011   (437 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
QataOriginally dwelling in the Ilan area of northeast Taiwan, the majority of Kavalan people were forced to migrate southwards to a strip of coastal land between Hualien and Taitung because of conflict over land and culture with Han Chinese who immigrated in increasing numbers from the early Qing dynasty onwards.
Important ritual activities include the Qatapan ceremony that follows victorious headhunting, and which today is held in conjunction with the Amis Harvest Festival; Kisaiz ceremony held when a person becomes a shaman; Pakalavi ceremony used for the treatment of illness, Patohkan funeral ceremony, and Palilin end-of-year festival held to honor ancestors.
This will lead to a new era in which traditional Kavalan culture is continued and preserved.
www.museum.org.tw /eview11.html   (191 words)

  
 Kavalan Hotel - Lotung, Taiwan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
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 Kavalan Hotel, Lotung, Taiwan - Discount Hotel Reservations   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
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 Kavalan Tietosanakirja   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Boeing's stock rose nearly 3 percentlong-haul, and the same with the 777, Jacques Kavalan, an analyst with Research Capital Corp., told Bloomberg News.
Kavalan Kavalan, one ethnic group of Plain Aborigines in Northern Taiwan
The interpretation of tu and Kavalan ergativity.(Austronesian language): An article from: Oceanic Linguistics
tietosanakirja.org /topic/Kavalan.html   (163 words)

  
 Kavalan hotel Lotung Taiwan - Kavalan Lotung hotel reviews
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 Kavalan Hotel - Lotung - recensioni su Kavalan Hotel - TripAdvisor
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 Kavalan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
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 Review: Chang Yung-Li (Arthur's Homepage)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
This is, as the title says, a review of Chang Yung-Li's 1997 thesis on Seediq and Kavalan.
I address three important points in Chang's thesis, and point out strengths and weaknesses.
If we distinguish syntax and morphology, we get a table with four possible alternatives, all of which are attested, with Seediq (thanks to Chang 1997) filling a typological gap.
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 Kavalan —   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
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