Taiwanese Holo

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Taiwanese Holo is a Southern Min Chinese language variety spoken primarily in Taiwan, known for its distinct phonology and vocabulary compared to Mandarin.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Chinese language variety
Sinitic language
Southern Min language
alternativeName Taiwanese
Taiwanese Hokkien NERFINISHED
Taiwanese Hoklo NERFINISHED
Taiwanese Minnan NERFINISHED
closelyRelatedTo Amoy Hokkien NERFINISHED
Quanzhou dialect NERFINISHED
Zhangzhou dialect
developedFrom Quanzhou speech NERFINISHED
Zhangzhou speech NERFINISHED
glottocode minn1241
hasLinguisticFeature distinct vocabulary from Mandarin
extensive tone sandhi rules
literary and colloquial reading distinctions
loanwords from Dutch
loanwords from Japanese
loanwords from Mandarin
hasPhonologicalFeature checked tones
distinction between nasal and oral vowels
final stop consonants
tone language
tone sandhi
voiceless unaspirated and aspirated stops
hasWritingSystem Chinese characters
Pe̍h-ōe-jī NERFINISHED
Tailo NERFINISHED
Taiwanese Southern Min Romanization NERFINISHED
historicalOrigin derived from Southern Fujian dialects
ISO639-3Code nan
languageFamily Sino-Tibetan languages
mutuallyIntelligibleWith Amoy Hokkien NERFINISHED
many Southern Min varieties
notMutuallyIntelligibleWith Mandarin Chinese NERFINISHED
primaryRegion Taiwan NERFINISHED
scriptDirection left-to-right
spokenIn Fujian Province NERFINISHED
Southeast Asia NERFINISHED
Taiwan NERFINISHED
diaspora communities
standardizationEffort Taiwanese Southern Min standard promoted by Taiwan government
statusInTaiwan important regional language
majority mother tongue among older generations
subbranch Southern Min NERFINISHED
subfamily Min Chinese NERFINISHED
usedBy Hoklo people in Taiwan NERFINISHED
usedIn Taiwanese opera
Taiwanese pop music
daily conversation in Taiwan
radio broadcasting
religious practices
television dramas

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Taiwanese Hokkien alternativeName Taiwanese Holo