Taiwanese Holo
E453787
Taiwanese Holo is a Southern Min Chinese language variety spoken primarily in Taiwan, known for its distinct phonology and vocabulary compared to Mandarin.
Statements (53)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Chinese language variety
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Sinitic language ⓘ Southern Min language ⓘ |
| alternativeName |
Taiwanese
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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
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extensive tone sandhi rules ⓘ literary and colloquial reading distinctions ⓘ loanwords from Dutch ⓘ loanwords from Japanese ⓘ loanwords from Mandarin ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
checked tones
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distinction between nasal and oral vowels ⓘ final stop consonants ⓘ tone language ⓘ tone sandhi ⓘ voiceless unaspirated and aspirated stops ⓘ |
| hasWritingSystem |
Chinese characters
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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
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majority mother tongue among older generations ⓘ |
| subbranch | Southern Min NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subfamily | Min Chinese NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedBy | Hoklo people in Taiwan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedIn |
Taiwanese opera
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Taiwanese pop music ⓘ daily conversation in Taiwan ⓘ radio broadcasting ⓘ religious practices ⓘ television dramas ⓘ |
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