Be that as it may, the nine indigenous peoples of Taiwan differ markedly among themselves in both language and culture. Did they come to Taiwan at the same time and differentiate later, or did the differences exist before they came?
但台灣九族先住民的語言、文化差異極大，他們到底是同時來台，再分裂成若干民族；或是在未移入台灣前，即已產生差異呢？