略辨“土著”与“原住民”

A Slight Difference:The Natives(Tuzhu) and the Indigenous(Yuanzhumin)

联合国关注并着手处理土著问题已40多年。联合国官方文件中的核心概念及对应词语"indigenous peoples"至少有"土著人民"和"土著民族"两个汉译名在同时并用。此外,在我国学术界以至一般媒体中,还存在着"土著"与"原住民"的混用现象。本文从语源、使用者范围、指涉范围宽狭度三方面,对这两个语词予以简略语义辨析。

In more than 40 years history ot dealing with ~too,e key concept and its language used in U. N. documentation~＂ indigenous peoples＂ has been translated into two Chinese words： native people （Tuzhurenmin） and native ethnic groups ）. In addition, the phenomenon of mixing up ＂ native ＂ （Tuzhu） and （Tuzhuminzu （Yuanzhumin） confused Chinese academics and the medias for a long time. This ＂indigenous＂ paper tries to distinguish the above two usages by simplified semantic analysis in three ways ： the origin, the scope of the users, and the extend of the references.