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Georgius Candidius
Georgius Candidius was a Dutch Reformed missionary, the first Protestant missionary in Taiwan, who arrived in 1627 and worked among the Siraya people around the village of Sinkan. He learned their language and wrote a description of their customs and religion. His work began the writing of Siraya in Latin letters, used by local people for documents into the 19th century.
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