Taiwanese Hokkien

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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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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

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

Luzhou District languageUsed Taiwanese Hokkien
Cijin District commonlySpokenLanguage Taiwanese Hokkien
Zhuzihu area languageUsed Taiwanese Hokkien
Chiayi County commonlySpokenLanguage Taiwanese Hokkien
Xindian District language Taiwanese Hokkien
Banqiao District languageUsed Taiwanese Hokkien
Bali District languageUsed Taiwanese Hokkien
Yilan County hasCommonLanguage Taiwanese Hokkien
Jiufen languageUsed Taiwanese Hokkien
Ximending Pedestrian Area languageUsed Taiwanese Hokkien
Jilong languageUsed Taiwanese Hokkien
Chilung languageUsed Taiwanese Hokkien
subject surface form: Keelung
Keelung Miaokou Night Market language Taiwanese Hokkien
Beitou hot spring area localLanguage Taiwanese Hokkien
Tucheng District languageUsed Taiwanese Hokkien
Yingge District language Taiwanese Hokkien
Ruifang District languageUsed Taiwanese Hokkien
Shiding District languageUsed Taiwanese Hokkien
Hokkien hasDialects Taiwanese Hokkien
Hokkien hasAlternativeName Taiwanese Hokkien
this entity surface form: Taiwanese (in Taiwan context)
Hokkien hasAlternativeName Taiwanese Hokkien
this entity surface form: Taiwanese Minnan