14 Facts About Taiwanese language

Later, in the 20th century, the conceptualization of Taiwanese language is more controversial than most variations of Chinese because at one time it marked a clear division between the Mainlanders who arrived in 1949 and the pre-existing majority native Taiwanese language.

In 1937 the colonial government introduced a concept called "National Language Family", which meant that families that proved that they adopted Japanese as their daily Taiwanese language enjoyed benefits such as greater access to education.

Taiwanese language has extremely extensive tone sandhi rules: in an utterance, only the last syllable pronounced is not affected by the rules.

Syntax of Taiwanese is similar to southern sinitic languages such as Hakka and Yue.

Until the late 19th century, Taiwanese language speakers wrote mostly in Classical Chinese, although songbooks using Han characters are attested from the 1820s.

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In most cases, Taiwanese language speakers write using the script called Han characters as in Mandarin, although there are a number of special characters which are unique to Taiwanese language and which are sometimes used in informal writing.

Prestige variant of Taiwanese language Hokkien is the southern speech found in Tainan and Kaohsiung.

Taiwanese language tends to get used more in rural areas, while Mandarin is used more in urban settings.

Taiwanese language is perceived by some to have a slight masculine leaning, making it more popular among the males of the younger population.

Translation using the principle of functional equivalence, "Today's Taiwanese language Romanized Version", containing only the New Testament, again in Peh-oe-ji, was published in 2008 as a collaboration between the Presbyterian Church in Taiwan and the Bible Society in Taiwan.

Some fluency in Taiwanese language Hokkien is desirable for political office in Taiwan for both independence and unificationist politicians.

Since then, politicians opposed to Taiwanese language independence have used it frequently in rallies, even when they are not native speakers.

Taiwanese language Hokkien is required for some activities but not others.

Kloter's Written Taiwanese has been described as "the most comprehensive English-language study of written Taiwanese".