sirayan
Collocations
5ADJ.
aboriginal, auspicious, last, other
VERB + SIRAYAN
reconstruct, texts
SIRAYAN + NOUN
language, pragmatism, reverend, society
PREP.
in
ADV.
obviously
Definitions
adj
Pertaining to the Siraya tribe, an indigenous people of Taiwan.
Sirayan pragmatism was obviously the key reason that they showed no desire to make a headlong rush into the new faith, but Candidius blamed the inibs for this recalcitrance.
Elements of its culture and language live on, and the association is striving to 'energise the Siraya tribe' and reconstruct the Sirayan language, the last native speaker having died c 1908.
noun
A member of the Siraya tribe.
In Sirayan society, the Reverend Candidius observed that the Sirayans had a different definition of "sins", which he considered were merely "fanciful inventions" not forbidden by the Law of God.
Unlike the Han people, who have traditionally preferred to bury their dead at times and in locations they consider auspicious, when a Sirayan died his or her body was first preserved by smoking, the buried under the floor of the family home.
The traditional language of the Sirayans.
While texts in Sirayan and other aboriginal languages are lost, there is still a substantial extant corpus of texts in Sinckan and Favorlang.
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5Sirayan pragmatism was obviously the key reason that they showed no desire to make a headlong rush into the new faith, but Candidius blamed the inibs for this recalcitrance.
WiktionaryElements of its culture and language live on, and the association is striving to 'energise the Siraya tribe' and reconstruct the Sirayan language, the last native speaker having died c 1908.
WiktionaryIn Sirayan society, the Reverend Candidius observed that the Sirayans had a different definition of "sins", which he considered were merely "fanciful inventions" not forbidden by the Law of God.
WiktionaryUnlike the Han people, who have traditionally preferred to bury their dead at times and in locations they consider auspicious, when a Sirayan died his or her body was first preserved by smoking, the b
WiktionaryWhile texts in Sirayan and other aboriginal languages are lost, there is still a substantial extant corpus of texts in Sinckan and Favorlang.
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