Taiwanese Hokkien
variety of Hokkien spoken in Taiwan, official name is Taiwanese Taigi
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Summary
Taiwanese Hokkien is a natural language[1]. It ranks in the top 10% of natural language entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (6,174 views/month).[2]
Key Facts
- Instance of: modern language[3], dialect[4], regiolect[5], varieties of Chinese[6]
- Subclass of: Hokkien[7]
- Commons category: Taiwanese Hokkien[8]
- Topic's main category: Category:Chinese language in Taiwan[9]
- Number of speakers, writers, or signers: 18,000,000[10]
- Official name: 臺灣台語[11], 臺灣臺語[12]
- Has characteristic: Chinese tone[13], tone sandhi[14]
- Different from: Formosan[15], Taiwanese Hakka[16]
- Uses: Taiwan Taigi Recommended Characters[17], Pe̍h-ōe-jī[18], Taiwanese Taigi Romanization System[19], Taiwanese Phonetic Symbols[20]
- Studied by: Taiwan studies[21]
- Linguistic typology: subject–verb–object[22], tonal language[23]
- Category for films in this language: Category:Taiwanese-language films[24]
- Related category: Category:Taiwanese pronunciation[25]
Why It Matters
Taiwanese Hokkien has Wikipedia articles in 23 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[26] It is known by 90 alternative names across languages and contexts.[27]