When she said thank you ( _ma’alo’_ ) I was mindblown. That word made it alllllllllll the way to Hawaii. ( _mahalo_ means thank you in Hawaiian)

before chinese invasion, taiwan is the land of austronesian people. as an indonesian and fellow austronesian language speaker, i feel so happy that austronesian people in taiwan still try hard to preserve their tradition.

As a Filipino, it really warms my heart to learn about our connection, that we are part of this Austronesian people.

Is it only me or somebody that see this girl really look similar to average Filipino, Indonesian and Malay?

When 5 was not Lima :'(

Those eyes really austronesian

Love from Malaysia❤. Austronesian will always be our ancestor even though our land and region are not united.

Amazing! I am from Madagascar. In Malagasy dialect (South East of the island), "Father" means also "Iaba" , pronounced exactly as in your language

Greetings from Tonga 🇹🇴 Deep in the South over the Seas. We Polynesians are proud and excited for our long estranged cousins up North. We along with our brothers in Samoa, Tahiti, Hawaii, Fiji, Vanuatu, and the Maoris in Aotearoa (NZ) etc are one big family over the Oceans. I guess we're the more "Oceanic" of the Austronesian Superfamily. I been reading about Tagalo in the Philippines and it is scary how the languages especially keywords are similar. As for her recitals...the only words I can relate: Yaba - Tamai - Father Aehae - Taha (Tongan) - One Rosa - Lua/Ua (Tonga/Samoa) - Two Too - Tolu - Three Sopat - Faa - Four Lima - Nima- Five (Someone suggested Lima in the Comments). Ma'alo - Malo (Tongan/Samoan) - Mahalo (Hawaiian) Talofa to you all and Aloha!

I'm Kadazan which is an ethnic group indigenous to North Borneo aka Sabah. I believe we're connected to this tribe in Taiwan. Our languange and ethnic costumes especially are very similar.

She looks like a princess.

Her beauty is beyond her language

if we met on the street by accident, I would have thought that she was Indonesian. it's amazing to see her as a part of our ancestry.

its very important to teach language to your children. ill teach my future children. bisaya and tagalog.

I also notice a trend with "thank you." In the Ibanag language from Northern Philippines, it is "mabbalo."

Greetings from fellow austronesian of indonesia👍

The word for number 4 amazed me Saisiyat - Sopat Sundanese - Opat Javanese - Papat Bahasa - Empat Tagalog - Apat Malagasy - Efatra

She is beautiful, looks Filipinos, Indonesian and perhaps malays

What a fascinating culture. I'm Hungarian so I come from a peculiar (Uralic) family myself (although I wouldn't call any family "unpeculiar"). I study Finnish and these millennia old connections amaze me. I also study languages like Swahili, Guaraní and Hawaiian

At last, now I can see the austronesian family in taiwan as the origin of austronesian expansion. Be pride with your culture and languages we are austronesian people, greetings from your austronesian family in Indonesia😁👍

Wow! 😳 Im mind blown 🤯 Same in Philippines language Ma'alo'= Ma'ayo in Visayan/Ilonggo/Hiligaynon is also used as thank you in many context Pil'awan = Paalam is also goodbye I cant believe our great great ancestors up north is just few minutes boat ride from the Philippines. Wow 😳

She is beautiful and she looks almost like my mother when she was young. I'm from Indonesia

It's amazing that the languages spoken all over the Pacific and most of South East Asia have their roots on the island of Taiwan.

Wow I had no idea that there are still native Austronesian communities in Taiwan that keep their language and culture alive, I thought they had all been assimilated by the Chinese long ago. Hearing this girl makes me surprisingly happy! :D

As From Madagascar, we are at the bottom of the connection but we can always recognize you austronesian cousins when you count or yell at any street in the world hahaahah :D

She said Ma'alo for thank you! In Tongan it's Malo. I love being Austronesian, Lima gang forever!

She is so beautiful !!! ❤

She does look like Indonesian or Filipino...I'm from Sarawak by the way...

My heart melted when I saw her eyes

In Māori we count 01 - Tahi 02 - Rua 03 - Toru 04 - Wha. (The “wh” sound is like a sift “f” sound) 05 - Rima 06 - Ono 07 - Whitu 08 - Waru 09 - Iwa 10 - Tekau (and Ngāhuru Also is ten) 11 - Tekau ma tahi (ngāhuru ma tahi) 12 - tekau ma rua 13 - tekau ma toru 14 - tekau ma wha 15 - tekau ma rima Etc 20 - rua tekau (rua ngāhuru) 30 - toru tekau 40 - wha tekau 50 - rima tekau 51 - rima tekau ma tahi 52 - rima tekau ma rua 53 - rima tekau ma toru 54 - rima tekau ma wha 55 - rima tekau ma rima 100 - Kotahi Rau 200 - Rua Rau 500 - Rima Rau 505 - Rima rau ma rima 550 - Rima rau Rima tekau 555 - rima rau rima tekau ma rima 1000 - Kotahi Mano 2000 - Rua Mano 5000 - rima mano 5005 - rima mano ma rima 5055 - rima mano rima tekau ma rima 5555 - rima mano rima rau rima tekau ma rima 7777 - whitu mano whitu rau whitu tekau ma whitu 8888 - waru mano waru rau waru tekau ma waru Mata in māori is both face and eyes. Also Karu is also eye Kanohi / konohi / konohe are all dialectal words for face Hand is ringaringa or ngirangira Waewae / wae = (noun) leg, foot, footprint Mauī is the left hand Matau (or katau) is the right hand Ihu is nose / snout / (noun) prow, bow (of a boat/canoe). Taringa - ear Te Taringa - the ear Ngā Tāringa - the ears Thumb / big toe => kōnui / tōnui / koromatua / rongomatua / takonui - tokonui Finger / toe => matikara Thank you => Ma’alo (Saisiyat) Samoan Mālo => This is a colloquial greeting. While 'talofa' is 'hello', 'malo' is 'hi' or 'hello'. The response to this is 'malo lava' Tongan Hello! “Malo e Lelei” Thank you => Malo Aupito mahalo (Hawaiian) - "Mahalo" is a Hawaiian word meaning thanks, gratitude, admiration, praise, esteem, regards, or respects. Māharo (māori) => 1. (verb) (-tia) to wonder at, admire. (Also mīharo) 2. (modifier) marvellous, amazing. 3. (noun) amazement, astonishment, admiration. Thank you (māori) => Kia Ora / Tēnā Koe Mother (māori) => Kowhaea Whaea => 1. (noun) mother, aunty - used in this form with an unlengthened vowel “a” Whāea => 1. (noun) mothers, aunties - used in this form with a lengthened vowel “ā”. whaea whāngai - (noun) foster mother. Kōkara (birth mother) Kōkā - (noun) mother, aunty - eastern dialect Ūkaipō - (noun) mother, source of sustenance. / (noun) origin, real home Whaene -. (noun) mother, aunt. Hākui / hākuikui - (noun) mother, mum, old woman, elderly woman. Whāereere => (noun) mother (of one's children), wife. / also (noun) mother (of animals) Tīaka - 1. (noun) mother (of animals). Karawa - (noun) female (animal or bird), mother / also a dam. hine 1. (noun) girl, daughter - term of address to a girl or younger woman. Father (māori) => matua (noun) father, parent, uncle pāpā 1. (noun) father, uncle, dad. Father / uncle - pāpara uretū 1. (noun) father, progenitor, male relative. hūngoi / hungarei / hungawai 1. (noun) mother-in-law, father-in-law. Poupou - (noun) father-in-law, mother-in-law. / also “old folk” - elders Hākoro / hākorokoro 1. (noun) elderly man, father, parent. Tama (māori) = (noun) (noun) son, boy, nephew. / (personal noun) boy, son - term of address to a boy or a man younger than the speaker. tamawahine 1. (noun) daughter, girl - tamawāhine in the plural. 2. (noun) in peace, placidness, non-agressiveness, passiveness. tamāhine 1. (noun) daughter. / girl kōtiro 1. (verb) to be a girl. 2. (modifier) as a girl. 3. (noun) girl. 4. (noun) daughter. mokopuna 1. (verb) to be a grandchild. 2. (noun) grandchildren, grandchild - child or grandchild of a son, daughter, nephew, niece, etc. 3. (noun) descendant. whāngai 1. (verb) (-a,-hia,-nga,-tia) to feed, to nourish, to bring up, to foster, to adopt, to raise, to nurture, to rear. 2. (noun) foster child, adopted child - this is a customary practice. Often a couple's first child was brought up by grandparents or adopted by one of the brothers or sisters of a parent, but almost always the foster child was a blood relation, usually a close relation. This practice continues today, but inheritance of land and property is not clear-cut. Sometimes the foster child would be entitled to inherit the foster father's property, especially if a child was adopted at birth and remained with the foster parents through to adulthood and looked after the adopted parent(s) in their old age. In this case the foster child would share the interests with any natural children. The rights of a foster child might be modified if an ōhākī (bequest) by the foster father had been made. Foster children always knew who their natural parents were. Whānau - (verb) to give birth - (noun) immediate family Hapū - (verb) to be pregnant) - (noun) a community of whānau together as a unified tribal grouping who share an eponymous ancestor Iwi - from Kōiwi meaning “strength” / “bones” of your ancestors. (noun) extended kinship group, tribe, nation, people, nation identity or groupings of related “Hapū” - often refers to a large grouping of several hapū descended from a common ancestor and associated with a distinct territory fiercely protected, cared for and nurtured. Maunga (māori) - mountain Awa (māori) - river Whenua - “placenta” and “land” Waka - canoe Waka hourua - double hulled canoe (catamaran) Wai - water Kai - food Ora - health / wellbeing Kia Ora - informal greeting in māori. Kia orana - greeting in Rarotongan. Ngā mihi ōku whānaunga tūākana kia kaha, Kia maia, Kia ū ki tō reo kāmehameha Ko Tongariro te maunga Ko Taupō te moana Ko te Heuheu Te Tangata Ko Ngāti Tūwharetoa toku iwi Ko Ngāti Hikairo toku hapū Ko Ōtukou toku marae Aha Ruia Taitea Ruia Taitea Tihei Mauri Ora!

The traditional dress is so beautiful~! And so similar to Ifugao's styles of clothing! It'd be interesting to see an individual from Ifugao and Saisiyat tribe interacting.

Austronesian language family is the largest spoken language family in South East Asia, Melanesia, Micronesia and the Polynesia. The reason being could be that this language family is easy to learn than the other native languages. For this reason some countries such as Papua New Guinea (Hiri Motu) and Indonesia (Bahasa) are official languages under their constitution of their respective countries. Bahasa and Hiri Motu are members of Austronesian family of languages. It is worth noting that Indonesia and Papua New Guinea have many tribal languages. In Papua New Guinea is about 800 languages according to government's official record. Linguistic experts can elaborate more on the evolution of languages in the South East Asia and the Pacific.

One day i will go to this land, get down on my knees, and cry..because this is where we all come from..my ancestors..from proud indonesian austronesian.

an Austronesian language family, this video is very educational and provides historical knowledge👍👍👏👏😘It is natural that the Portuguese gave the name of this island Formosa, its tribes vary in one small island👍👍👏👏 Malaysian, Indonesian, Philiphine, Madagascar, Formosan, Polynesian, Melanesian, Micronesian etc. is Austronesian

When she said "Thank you" or "MaAALo" in Austronesian/Taiwan Tribe is exactly like Hawaiian "Mahalo".

0:06 Her eyes also glow, and gleam, and shine furthermore with a most beautiful spirit. 0:15: ... 0:17 UAU !!

Beautiful video and thank you for sharing about the Saisiyat people in Taiwan. My family is from Samoa and it is fascinating to listen to the young lady speaking her language, especially the word for "thank you" and numbers 1-10. Thank you in Samoan is "fa'afetai" and numbers 1-10 and more are: 1= tasi 2=lua 3=tolu 4=fa 5=lima 6=ono 7=fitu 8=valu 9=iva 10=sefulu 11=sefulu-tasi 20=lua-sefulu 100=selau 1000=afe I could hear some of the numbers sound similar in Saisiyat and Samoan. Thanks again for sharing wishing you peace and harmony from Seattle.

Her eyes so beautiful.

In 2014, I visited a small village in southern Taiwan near Taitung, where I met a fellow American, of Taiwanese descent, who later graduated from Yale Medical School.

Our Ancestors😘🇵🇭

The Taiwanese languages are the most diverse of austronesian languages which seems surprising given its a fairly small country

I now know. We are family. We are the same Austronesian people. We philippines are also Austronesian like you

Beautiful Austronesian

She's so beautiful,greetings from jakarta

I loved her face and eyes. I am quite curious as to which ethnic groups have this view.

She is beautiful 😘

the ethnic ornament that she wore in her head are similar and having same colour with Batak tribe from Sumatera Indonesia.. also the word 'thank you'.. she said 'maalu' and batak people said 'mauliate'

Taiwain: Saisiyat - Ma'alo Atayal - Mhuway Paiwan - Masalu Philippines: Bikolano - Mabalos Itawis - Mabbalat Ibbanag - Mabbalo Batanic languages - Mamajes/Mamahes/Mamexes Ifugao - Munhana Polynesian Triangle: Hawaiian - Mahalo Tongan - Malo Tahitian/Maohi - Mauruuru Easter Island/Rapa Nui - Maururu Maybe the true Austronesian word is related to these some how.

She looks like an anime girl with those big beautiful eyes

one of the most beautiful eyes iv3 ever seen

She looks like my old classmate back in Elementary School.🥰

This language is unique

FIrst of all she is just beautiful..ok stunning lol..My family is from Cebu and we speak the bisaya dialect..I don't recognize any similarity from her dialect tho,but would love to know more! I am so curious now and will most likely watch all of your videos from now on lol

This people are very close to the Batanes people in the further northern part of the Philippines

She's so beautiful

She is smart & beautiful, and she is an Austronesian !

The goodbye Pil'awan somewhat resembles Tagalog which is Paalam with a glottal stop too. I think linguists can reform out glottal stop writing with '. For example Pa'alam is much clearer to read than Paalam

Make me proud to be part Austronesian

Filipinos, Indonesians, Native Taiwanese and Malaysian are much closer to Pacific Islanders than East Asian people

This channel deserves more subs and views to raise support and awareness of the indigenous people's presence through media.

She is really indeed beautiful

Greetings from Toraja

Lets count in our native language (I'm a kankana-ey from the northern Philippines) 1.isa/isang 2.duwa 3.tolu 4.upat 5.lima 6.enem 7.pito/pitu 8.wa-o/walo 9.siyam 10.simpu-o/simpo

So beautifuullll ❤❤❤

Still has similarities with Filipino languages, especially if you speak many Filipino languages aside from tagalog

I wanna visit Taiwan main island and Lanyu.... A culturual journey from the Philippines

1-Nik 2-Duwoh 3-Taruh 4-Pat 5-Rimoh 6-Nuam 7-Juk 8-Moyih 9-Pri'i 10-Simo'ong Father-Samak Mother-Sinok..Greeting from Land Of Dayaks Borneo Island Bidayuh Biroih Tribe

That girl so sweet like Javanese Girl... I think we came from same Ancestor 🙏 Rahayu

Truly, elegant language.

OMG... her nose and eyes really similiar to native indonesian.

As a kadazan(one of the native tribes in the northern area of borneo) tooo and sopat is the only similarity i can see here with my languange, cause in kadazandusun 3 is tohu and 4 is apat.

Beautiful and hearty cultures.

This channel's initiative to raise awareness of Taiwan's Austronesian languages is highly laudable and should be supported by both the academe and the relevant government bodies. However, the subtitles spelling out the pronunciations are so off they almost amount to misinformation, surely unintended of course. This is true, unfortunately, for all the Indigenous Bridges videos. To the owner of this channel, my apologies, but please take this with an open mind: whoever is doing the subtitles does not have the ear for native pronunciations. In this video for example: Girl: "Ah hah" (plus guttural stop in the last syllable, almost like "hahk" with a soft "k") Subtitle: "Aehae" Native Austronesian will read subtitle as: "Ah-eh ha-eh" Native English speaker will read subtitle as: "Ey [as in "air" without the "r"], hey" Another example: Girl: "Lahm pehn" [with "peh" closer in pronunciation to the English word "purr" without the "r's"] Subtitle: "Lampez" Native Austronesian will read subtitle as: "Lahm pez" Native English speaker will read subtitle as: "Lam [as in "lamp" without the "p"], pez" My great fear is that these alarming errors will be perpetuated in English-Austronesian dictionaries, joining a long list of mispronounced translations.

The only words i can recognized are the numbers: 2 - "rosa" - in TaiwaneseAustronesian "duha" - in Filipino Bisaya "dalawa" - in Filipino Tagalog 3 - "tooo" - in TaiwaneseAustronesian "tulo" - in Filipino Bisaya "tatlo" - in Filipino Tagalog 4 - "sopat" -inTaiwaneseAustronesian "upat" - in Filipino Bisaya "apat" - in Filipino Tagalog

To listen to more Austronesian language diversity in Taiwan, check out out Channel's Playlist. Here is one of the songs there. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/sKiqda9i2Zy2c2g.html

She's look like indonesian actress "salshabilla adriani"

She's beautiful

I'm an Indonesian. She says "ya ba" for father, and we say "bapak". She says "to o" for two and we say "dua". She says "sopat" for "4" and we say "empat" or "opat" in west java.

I'm Tongan I want to learn more

Very cute

I study Maya and i find the indigenous American and Asian languages very similar in the structure

I guess science doesnt lie. 2 years later... this whole austronesian theory is now actually "canon" instead of theory. As a Filipino in the USA I am often confused as an african american. But seeing this video and others along the way it helps me connnect with who i am and my lineage. Thank you this was very informative.

She’s look like my daughter of course we are both Austronesian. I’m jarai tribe in central highland of Vietnam

In filipino good bye is "Paalam"

When she counted 5, i thought she was gonna say "Lima" which most Austronesian languages have.

yawa yama yati tiyon is the one of most difficult name beside uvuvwevwevwe and khwazawaza, let's makes her viral

Austronesian beauty ❤

She is really beautiful!

Wow!!! She looks like my sister, and my family is malay

Amazing....our anciaent really really close...I am one of the "Dayak" tribe in Borneo or Kalimantan Island of Indonesia. My tribe called 'dayak u''ud danum'...l want to count number 1 to 10 in my tribe language...there is it....icok=1, duok=2, toluk=3, ohpat=4, limok=5, onom=6, pihtuk=7, jaluk=8, siyoi=9, sopuluh=10....you can smile to see it❤❤❤❤❤austronesian

philippine dialects commonly used words such as counting from ISA DALAWA TATLO APAT LIMA ANIM PITO WALO SIYAM SAMPU..dad is tatay mother is nanay ...older sister is ate older brother is kuya

...Beautyful...

austronesia ,we should reunite

She is my future wife 🌹 Greetings one Austronesian from Java, Indonesia. Our ancestors are the same. ♥️

Large eyes, so typical Austronesian. Pretty.

This girl look like my Indonesian friend in Senior high School.

Wow that was amazing im a filipino from the province of Ifugao how you count a number is almost the same to our language 1 for us is AHA and 2 CHUGO 3 is TOLO

She seem still learning, good luck sister

shes so pretty!

My ancestor. 😭