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Aboriginal Music - Taiwenese Aboriginal Song by Samingad (紀曉君)

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Uploaded by on Feb 8, 2009

Taiwanese aborigines, 原住民 or yuánzhùmín literally original inhabitants is the term commonly applied in reference to the indigenous peoples of Taiwan. They are (Not Chinese) Austronesian peoples, with linguistic and genetic ties to other Austronesian ethnic groups, such as peoples of the Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, Madagascar and Oceania.
These song were sung by Samingad (紀曉君), a member of Taiwanese ethnic Puyuma people. and is about how they land is beginning to forget what is were once aka Facing extinction.

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  • Umm, thanks for stealing my video. The music isn't mine....obviously. But this video is me riding my bike.

  • Sorta sounds Samoan this song

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  • @campoxanto many taiwan aboriginal languages have similar words with filippino words (:

  • Salam im From Malaysia..love Malayan(Formosan Aborigines) people of Taiwan.They Culture similar to Minagkabau of Sumatra and Mixed with Borneoan-Filipinos like Kazadan of sabah Malaysia and Tagalog of Philippine

  • @TaiwanLifeSavior 卑南族的 (南王系之歌)!  多是用在歡迎賓客上! 總之很紅就是了...在原住民圈裡!

  • @wanluanzhujiao 卑南族的 (南王系之歌)! 多是用在歡迎賓客上! 總之很紅就是了...在原住民圈裡!

  • wow, taiwan is like northern luzon island. agree with everybody here, taiwan aborigines should be aware that we, from the philippines, indonesia, madagascar, brunei, singapore, malaysia, champa, polynesia and micronesia as one people!

  • @13mordeth not kiding??

  • Sounds like a Kalinga/ifugao (North Philippines) song. ;) Amazing, we are Austronesians!

  • to sweetygal88, wow! thank you for posting this. You are right, I have been doing a little research on the austronesian race and language. its quite beautiful. I actually went to Taiwan to visit the indigenous Center. It was very amazing to see. Thanks again.

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