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Taiwanese Hokkien

Taiwanese Hokkien
NameTaiwanese Hokkien
Nativename臺語
Tâi-gí
FamilycolorSino-Tibetan
StatesTaiwan
RegionTaiwan
SpeakersAbout 15 million in Taiwan; 49 million (Min Nan as a group)
Fam2Chinese
Fam3Min
Fam4Min Nan
Fam5Hokkien
ScriptLatin (pe̍h-ōe-jī), Hanji
NationNone, de facto status in Taiwan since it is one of the statutory languages for public transport announcements in Taiwan.
AgencyNational Languages Committee (Ministry of Education, ROC).
Iso3nan
NoticeIPA

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Taiwanese Hokkien ( or ), commonly known as Taiwanese (Tâi-oân-oē or Tâi-gí 台語), is the Hokkien dialect of Min Nan as spoken by about 70% of the population of Taiwan. The largest linguistic group in Taiwan, in which Hokkien is considered a native language, is known as Hoklo or Holo (Hō-ló). The correlation between language and ethnicity is generally true, though not absolute, as some Hoklo speak Hokkien poorly while some non-Hoklo speak Hokkien fluently. Pe̍h-ōe-jī (POJ) is a popular orthography for this variant of Hokkien.

Taiwanese Hokkien is generally similar to Amoy. Minor differences only occur in terms of vocabulary. Like Amoy, Taiwanese Hokkien is based on a mixture of Zhangzhou and Quanzhou speech. Due to the mass popularity of Hokkien entertainment media from Taiwan, Taiwanese Hokkien has grown to become the more influential Hokkien dialect of Min Nan, especially since the 1980s. Along with Amoy, the Taiwanese prestige dialect (based on the Tâi-lâm variant) is regarded as ‘standard Hokkien.’


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