Taiwanese Hokkien

E123149
Chinese language variety Sinitic language Southern Min language

Taiwanese Hokkien is a Southern Min Chinese language variety widely spoken in Taiwan, where it serves as a major vernacular and cultural language alongside Mandarin.

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All labels observed (13)

Label Occurrences
Taiwanese Hokkien canonical 98
Hoklo Taiwanese 4
Min Nan 4

Statements (69)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Chinese language variety ⓘ
Sinitic language ⓘ
Southern Min language ⓘ
alternativeName Taiwanese ⓘ
Taiwanese Hoklo ⓘ
Taiwanese Holo ⓘ
Taiwanese Hokkien ⓘ
surface form: Taiwanese Minnan

Taiwanese Hokkien ⓘ
surface form: Taiwanese Southern Min
associatedEthnicGroup Hoklo people ⓘ
Hoklo people ⓘ
surface form: Taiwanese people
closelyRelatedTo Amoy Hokkien ⓘ
Quanzhou dialect ⓘ
Zhangzhou dialect ⓘ
culturalRole heritage language of Hoklo people in Taiwan ⓘ
marker of Taiwanese identity ⓘ
differsFrom Standard Chinese ⓘ
surface form: Standard Mandarin
glottocode taia1237 ⓘ
hasDialect Kaohsiung subvariety ⓘ
Tainan subvariety ⓘ
Taipei subvariety ⓘ
Yilan subvariety ⓘ
hasISOCode nan ⓘ
hasLexicalInfluenceFrom Classical Chinese ⓘ
Dutch ⓘ
English ⓘ
Japanese ⓘ
Mandarin Chinese ⓘ
hasMedia Taiwanese Hokkien TV channels ⓘ
Taiwanese Hokkien radio stations ⓘ
hasMorphologicalFeature analytic morphology ⓘ
hasPhonologicalFeature checked tones ⓘ
distinction between literary and colloquial readings ⓘ
tone language ⓘ
tone sandhi ⓘ
hasSyntacticFeature SVO basic word order ⓘ
sentence-final particles ⓘ
topic-prominent structure ⓘ
historicalOrigin Southern Fujian dialects ⓘ
languageFamily Sino-Tibetan languages ⓘ
majorityLanguageIn southern Taiwan ⓘ
majorVernacularIn Taiwan, Province of China ⓘ
surface form: Taiwan
migrationHistory brought to Taiwan by settlers from Fujian during Ming and Qing dynasties ⓘ
notMutuallyIntelligibleWith Cantonese ⓘ
Mandarin Chinese ⓘ
numberOfSpeakersEstimate 15000000 ⓘ
officialStatus recognized as a national language in Taiwan ⓘ
regulatedBy Ministry of Education of the ROC ⓘ
surface form: Ministry of Education of Taiwan
romanizationSystem Pe̍h-ōe-jī ⓘ
Tailo ⓘ
spokenIn Fujian ⓘ
surface form: Fujian Province

Japan Taiwanese communities ⓘ
Kinmen ⓘ
Matsu Islands ⓘ
Penghu Islands ⓘ
Southeast Asian Chinese communities ⓘ
Taiwan, Province of China ⓘ
surface form: Taiwan

United States Taiwanese communities ⓘ
subfamily Chinese languages ⓘ
Southern Min ⓘ
usedFor daily communication in Taiwan ⓘ
folk literature ⓘ
popular music in Taiwan ⓘ
radio broadcasting in Taiwan ⓘ
religious practices in Taiwan ⓘ
television dramas in Taiwan ⓘ
traditional opera ⓘ
usedInEducation local language education in Taiwan schools ⓘ
writingSystem Chinese characters ⓘ
Latin alphabet ⓘ

Referenced by (122)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Republic of China → recognizedLanguage → Taiwanese Hokkien ⓘ
Governor-General of Taiwan → languageUsed → Taiwanese Hokkien ⓘ
Pescadores Islands → languageUsed → Taiwanese Hokkien ⓘ
Penghu Islands → languageUsed → Taiwanese Hokkien ⓘ
Hakka → notMutuallyIntelligibleWith → Taiwanese Hokkien ⓘ
this entity surface form: Min Nan
Fujian → majorLocalLanguage → Taiwanese Hokkien ⓘ
this entity surface form: Min Nan
Hokkien language → subclassOf → Taiwanese Hokkien ⓘ
this entity surface form: Min Nan language
Hokkien language → hasDialect → Taiwanese Hokkien ⓘ
Hokkien language → hasAlternativeName → Taiwanese Hokkien ⓘ
this entity surface form: Taiwanese (in Taiwan context)
Kinmen → commonSpokenLanguage → Taiwanese Hokkien ⓘ
Tainan → languageUsed → Taiwanese Hokkien ⓘ
New Taipei City → commonLanguages → Taiwanese Hokkien ⓘ
Ximending → languageUsed → Taiwanese Hokkien ⓘ
Keelung → languageCommon → Taiwanese Hokkien ⓘ
Taipei–Keelung metropolitan area → commonlySpokenLanguage → Taiwanese Hokkien ⓘ
Tsai Ing-wen → languageSpoken → Taiwanese Hokkien ⓘ
White Terror in Taiwan → hasLanguage → Taiwanese Hokkien ⓘ
Eric Chu → languageSpoken → Taiwanese Hokkien ⓘ
Min Chinese → hasMajorVariety → Taiwanese Hokkien ⓘ
this entity surface form: Min Nan
Min Chinese → hasMajorVariety → Taiwanese Hokkien ⓘ
Taiwanese Hokkien → alternativeName → Taiwanese Hokkien ⓘ
this entity surface form: Taiwanese Minnan
Taiwanese Hokkien → alternativeName → Taiwanese Hokkien ⓘ
this entity surface form: Taiwanese Southern Min
Pingtung County, Taiwan → hasEthnicGroup → Taiwanese Hokkien ⓘ
subject surface form: Pingtung County
this entity surface form: Hoklo Taiwanese
Pingtung County, Taiwan → commonlySpokenLanguage → Taiwanese Hokkien ⓘ
subject surface form: Pingtung County
Han Taiwanese → language → Taiwanese Hokkien ⓘ
Han Taiwanese → ethnicSubgroup → Taiwanese Hokkien ⓘ
this entity surface form: Hoklo Taiwanese
Hualien, Taiwan → language → Taiwanese Hokkien ⓘ
southern Taiwan → language → Taiwanese Hokkien ⓘ
subject surface form: Southern Taiwan
Atayalic languages → threatenedBy → Taiwanese Hokkien ⓘ
Saisiyat language → hasNeighboringLanguage → Taiwanese Hokkien ⓘ
Babuza language → languageShiftTo → Taiwanese Hokkien ⓘ
Luilang language → languageShiftTo → Taiwanese Hokkien ⓘ
Puyuma language → shiftedTo → Taiwanese Hokkien ⓘ
this entity surface form: Taiwanese Hokkien (for many speakers)
Yami (Tao) → languageShiftPressureFrom → Taiwanese Hokkien ⓘ
this entity surface form: Taiwanese Southern Min
Taitung County → languageUsed → Taiwanese Hokkien ⓘ
Yu Qingfang → languageSpoken → Taiwanese Hokkien ⓘ
this entity surface form: Hokkien (Taiwanese Minnan)
Yami language → usedAlongside → Taiwanese Hokkien ⓘ
Taoyuan City → hasCommonLanguages → Taiwanese Hokkien ⓘ
Pescadores → language → Taiwanese Hokkien ⓘ
Johnny Chiang → languageSpoken → Taiwanese Hokkien ⓘ
Daxi District → languageUsed → Taiwanese Hokkien ⓘ
Kavalan language → shiftedTo → Taiwanese Hokkien ⓘ
Magong → localLanguages → Taiwanese Hokkien ⓘ
Wang-an Island → languageUsed → Taiwanese Hokkien ⓘ
Xiyu Island → hasLanguage → Taiwanese Hokkien ⓘ
Lien Chan → ethnicGroup → Taiwanese Hokkien ⓘ
this entity surface form: Hoklo Taiwanese
Lien Chan → languageSpoken → Taiwanese Hokkien ⓘ
Kejiahua → distinctFrom → Taiwanese Hokkien ⓘ
this entity surface form: Min Nan
Hung Hsiu-chu → languageSpoken → Taiwanese Hokkien ⓘ
Baisha Island → hasLanguage → Taiwanese Hokkien ⓘ