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2. Languages of Taiwan - Wikipedia

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   The Taiwanese indigenous languages or Formosan languages are the languages of the Taiwanese indigenous peoples. Taiwanese aborigines currently comprise about 2.3% of the island's population. [ 10 ] However, far fewer can still speak their ancestral language after centuries of language shift .

3. Taiwanese Hakka - Wikipedia

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   Taiwanese Hakka is a language group consisting of Hakka dialects spoken in Taiwan, and mainly used by people of Hakka ancestry. Taiwanese Hakka is divided into five main dialects: Sixian, Hailu, Dabu, Raoping, and Zhao'an. [5] The most widely spoken of the five Hakka dialects in Taiwan are Sixian and Hailu. [6]

4. Taiwanese Mandarin - Wikipedia

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   Taiwanese Mandarin, frequently referred to as Guoyu (Chinese: 國語; pinyin: Guóyǔ; lit. 'national language') or Huayu (華語; Huáyǔ; 'Chinese language'; not to be confused with 漢語), is the variety of Mandarin Chinese spoken in Taiwan.

5. Taiwanese Hokkien - Wikipedia

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   A collection of translations of the Bible in Taiwanese. Top left, Today's Taiwanese version; top right, the Red-Cover Bible; bottom, Barclay's translation. As with many other languages, the translations of the Bible in Taiwan marked milestones in the standardization attempts of the language and its orthography.

6. Formosan languages - Wikipedia

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   In 2005, in order to help with the preservation of the languages of the indigenous people of Taiwan, the council established a Romanized writing system for all of Taiwan's aboriginal languages. The council has also helped with classes and language certification programs for members of the indigenous community and the non-Formosan Taiwanese to ...

7. Chinese language romanization in Taiwan - Wikipedia

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   Prior to Dutch arrival to Formosa, the Taiwanese indigenous peoples did not use writing. [citation needed] During the brief Dutch rule over the island, Dutch missionaries created the Sinkan (新港) romanization system based on their own language to communicate with and evangelize native Formosans, particularly the Siraya people, who continued to utilize the script for over a century after the ...