Korko Ta'ai And His Wife (Pick Loanwords - Bag Indigenous. Anthropology Notes 276-278)
子供 Child 水子供養 /水子地藏 @Sendai Japan Note 276 Korko ta'ai (child-size people lived in tayoiru ) Korko rusug (child-size monkey)(monkey-like people living in cave) Source 1935 1. korko 子供 child/children in Japanese. Therefore korko used for paSta'ay context could not have existed before 1895. 2. ta'ai are people who lived in ta'ai 大隘 (footnote 6 page 125). Ta'ai 大隘 is a Hakka establishment founded in 1835. Therefore ta'ai used for paSta'ay context could not have existed before 1835. 3.rusung for monkey 猿 is Mal (Malaysia). Japanese identify/suggest language origin all through the reports. 4. Both Saiyahoru (1914) and Sairakis (1935) are synonym of Ta'ai 大隘. Saiyahoru refers to Ta'ai clan (people). Sairakis refers to Ta'ai village (place). Shipaji is 上坪溪 Shangpingxi. (Source - Paul Barclay Lafayette digital) 5. Who are the ta'ai? Google translate result with my very minor edit. "Long ago, I heard the sound of people talking in a cave....