Hoanya people
The Hoanya () are a Taiwanese Aboriginal people who live primarily in Changhua County, Chiayi City, Nantou County, and near Tainan City. Their language, Hoanya, is now extinct. The Lloa people and Arikun people are generally considered to be a part of the Hoanya people. Etymology 
Scholar like Kaim Ang suggests the name of the people, "Hoanya", come from Taiwanese Hokkien , originally from the perspective of ethnic Chinese referring to non-Chinese, especially historically natives of Taiwan and Southeast Asia. The name of the people group retained the obsolete diminutive suffix, , in Hokkien, which originally came from a weak form of  and today survives in Hokkien as the diminutive suffix, . "" is attested in the Dictionario Hispanico Sinicum (1626-1642) and use of the obsolete  suffix is also recorded in Medhurst (1832). The modern form of the same aforementioned word in Taiwanese Hokkien is , which over the centuries took on a derogatory connotation in Taiwan in reference to Taiwanese aboriginal groups in general or to any unreasonable persons, although the same word, Huan-a, means differently in other Hokkien-speaking communities, such as in Fujian (Mainland China), the Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, etc. See also
 Hoanya language
 Kingdom of Middag
 Taiwanese indigenous peoples

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Taiwanese indigenous peoples