According to Utsurizawa Nenojou, Miyamoto Nobuto, and Mabuchi Touichi, who were professors of anthropology at the forerunner of National Taiwan University, the aborigines of Taiwan can be classified into nine different peoples.
根據台北帝國大學土俗人種學研究室（台灣大學考古人類學系前身）教授移川子之藏、宮本延人和馬淵東一的分類，台灣地區先住民共分九族；但也有些人將日月潭的邵族加入，而成十族；各族又依住處分成許多社。