Taiwanese HokkienVariety of Hokkien spoken in TaiwanTaiwanese speechTraditional Chinese臺灣話Tâi-lôTâi-uân-uē / Tâi-uân-uāTaiwanese languageTraditional Chinese臺語Tâi-lôTâi-gí / Tâi-gír / Tâi-gúTaiwanese HokkienTraditional Chinese臺灣福建話Tâi-lôTâi-uân Hok-kiàn-uē / Hok-kiàn-uāTaiwan TaigiTraditional Chinese臺灣台語Tâi-lôTâi-uân Tâi-gí / Tâi-uân Tâi-gú / Tâi-uân Tâi-gírTaiwanese Hokkien ( , US also ), colloquially known as Taiwanese (Chinese: 臺灣話; Tâi-lô: Tâi-uân-ūe) or Taigi (臺語; Tâi-gí/gú/gír), Taiwanese Taigi (臺灣台語; Tâi-uân Tâi-gí/gú/gír), Taiwanese Southern Min (臺灣閩南語; Tâi-uân Bân-lâm-gí/gú/gír), Hoklo and Holo, is a variety of the Hokkien language spoken natively by more than 70 percent of the population of Taiwan.
Southern MinSouthern Min (simplified Chinese: 闽南语; traditional Chinese: 閩南語; pinyin: Mǐnnányǔ; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Bân-lâm-gí/gú; lit.
Overseas ChineseEthnic Chinese residing outside of ChinaEthnic groupAn Overseas Chinese person is a person of Chinese ancestry or is a person of full or partial Chinese origin who traces his or her ancestry back to the Greater China but are living and working outside of Greater China (mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan). This term generally applies to both people of Chinese ancestry and citizens abroad. As of 2026, approximately 40 million ethnic Chinese live abroad.
Amoy dialectDialect of Hokkien spoken in the city of Xiamen The Amoy dialect or Xiamen dialect (Chinese: 廈門話; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Ē-mn̂g-ōe; pinyin: Xiàménhuà), also known as Amoyese, Amoynese, Amoy Hokkien, Xiamenese or Xiamen Hokkien, is a dialect of Hokkien spoken in the city of Xiamen (historically known as "Amoy") and its surrounding metropolitan area, in the southern part of Fujian province.
XiamenCity in Fujian, ChinaPrefecture-level and Sub-provincial city in Fujian, ChinaXiamen, historically romanized as Amoy, is a sub-provincial city in southeastern Fujian, People's Republic of China, beside the Taiwan Strait. It is divided into six districts: Huli, Siming, Jimei, Tong'an, Haicang, and Xiang'an.
TainanJapanese nameHiraganaたいなんしKatakanaタイナンシKyūjitai臺南市Shinjitai台南市Tainan (), officially Tainan City, is a special municipality in southern Taiwan, facing the Taiwan Strait on its western coast. Tainan is the oldest city on the island and commonly called the "prefectural capital" for its 263-year history as the capital of Taiwan under Dutch rule, the Kingdom of Tungning and later Qing dynasty rule until 1887.
HokkienHokkien ( HOK-ee-en, US also HOH-kee-en) is a variety of Chinese from the Southern Min branch of the Sinitic languages, native to the Minnan region in the southern part of Fujian province in southeastern China, as well as the island of Taiwan. It is also referred to as Quanzhang, named after the prefecture-level cities of Quanzhou and Zhangzhou.OrthographyAn orthography is a set of conventions for writing a language, including norms of spelling, punctuation, word boundaries, capitalization, hyphenation, and emphasis. Most national and international languages have an established writing system that has undergone substantial standardization, thus exhibiting less dialect variation than the spoken language.
Latin scriptThe Latin script, also known as the Roman script, is a writing system based on the letters of the classical Latin alphabet, derived from a form of the Greek alphabet which was in use in the ancient Greek city of Cumae in Magna Graecia. The Greek alphabet was altered by the Etruscans, and subsequently their alphabet was altered by the Ancient Romans.
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