Taiwanese Hokkien | |
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臺語 Tâi-gí / Tâi-gú[I] | |
Native to | Taiwan |
Ethnicity | Hoklo Taiwanese |
Native speakers | 13.5 million (2017)[1] |
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Early forms | |
Chinese characters (Traditional), Latin (Tâi-lô, Pe̍h-ōe-jī), Kana, Bopomofo (Taiwanese Phonetic Symbols), Hangul | |
Official status | |
Official language in | Taiwan[b] |
Regulated by | Ministry of Education in Taiwan |
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ISO 639-3 | (ftg is proposed[10]) |
Glottolog | taib1242 Taibei Hokkien |
Linguasphere | 79-AAA-jh |
Proportion of residents aged 6 or older using Hokkien at home in Taiwan, Penghu, Kinmen & Matsu in 2010[11] | |
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Traditional Chinese | 臺灣閩南語 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hokkien POJ | Tâi-oân Bân-lâm-gí / Bân-lâm-gú | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Traditional Chinese | 臺灣話 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hokkien POJ | Tâi-oân-ōe | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Traditional Chinese | 臺語 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hokkien POJ | Tâi-gí / Tâi-gú | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Taiwanese Hokkien (/ˈhɒkiɛn/ HOK-ee-en, US also /ˈhoʊkiɛn/ HOH-kee-en; Chinese: 臺灣話; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Tâi-oân-ōe; Tâi-lô: Tâi-uân-uē), or simply Taiwanese, also known as Taiuanoe, Taigi, Taigu (Chinese: 臺語; Pe̍h-ōe-jī/Tâi-lô: Tâi-gí / Tâi-gú),[c][12] Taiwanese Minnan (Chinese: 臺灣閩南語), Hoklo and Holo,[13][14] is a variety of the Hokkien language spoken natively by more than 70 percent of the population of Taiwan.[15] It is spoken by a significant portion of those Taiwanese people who are descended from Hoklo immigrants of southern Fujian.[16] It is one of the national languages of Taiwan.
Taiwanese is generally similar to Hokkien spoken in Amoy, Quanzhou, and Zhangzhou, as well as dialectal forms used in Southeast Asia, such as Singaporean Hokkien, Penang Hokkien, Philippine Hokkien, Medan Hokkien, and Southern Peninsular Malaysian Hokkien. It is mutually intelligible with the Amoy and Zhangzhou varieties at the mouth of the Jiulong River in mainland China, and with Philippine Hokkien to the south in the Philippines, spoken altogether by about 3 million people.[17] The mass popularity of Hokkien entertainment media from Taiwan has given prominence to the Taiwanese variety of Hokkien, especially since the 1980s.
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Languages Mandarin (Chinese), Holo (Taiwanese), Hakka, Austronesian languages
Principal languages
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