台湾的少数民族也就是台湾原住民族,即50年代所称的“台湾高山族”.在台湾后来改称为“山胞”、“台湾土著族”、“台湾先住民”、“台湾原住民”等。台湾的高山族有自己的民族语言,属于南岛语系印度尼西亚语族。与古代越人语言一样,高山族语言也是多音节的粘着语,不同于汉族一字一音的孤立语。但高山族各地区的语言在语音、词汇、语法形态上差别较大。大体上可以分为“泰雅”、“曹”、“排湾”三大语群。高山族没有通用的民族文字。据语言与地域文化特征分类,台湾高山族主要分为九大族群,包括阿美族、泰雅族、排湾族、布农族、卑南族、鲁凯族、邹族(曹族)、雅美族、赛夏族。广义的高山族还包括平埔人,他们散居在台湾西部、北部、西南部平原与沿海,长期与汉族杂处、通婚,较早接受汉族文化,至19世纪以后已基本与汉族融为一体。 Taiwan’s ethnic minorities are also Taiwan’s indigenous peoples, the so-called “mountainous Taiwanese people” in the 1950s, later renamed as “mountain peasants” in Taiwan, “Taiwanese indigenous peoples”, “Taiwan’s first inhabitants” “,” Taiwan aborigines “and so on. Taiwan’s Gaoshan people have their own ethnic language, belonging to the Indonesian language of the Austronesian family. Like the ancient Vietnamese language, Gaoshan language is also a multi-syllable adhesive language, different from the Han-word isolated language. However, the languages ​​of the Gaoshan people are different in their phonetic, lexical and grammatical forms. Generally can be divided into ”Atayal “, ”Cao “, ”Paiwan " three big language groups. Gaoshan people do not have universal national language. According to the classification of language and geographical and cultural features, Taiwan’s Gaoshan people are mainly divided into nine major ethnic groups, including Amis, Atayal, Paiwan, Bunun, Puyuma, Rukai, Tsou (Caozu) Race summer family. The broadly defined Gaoshan people also include Pingpu people, who lived in the western, northern, southwestern plains and coasts of Taiwan, long-term mixed with Han nationality, marriages, and earlier acceptance of the Han culture. By the 19th century, they were basically integrated with the Han people.