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TAIWAN – 台灣
The Island of Taiwan is home to several varieties of languages under families of: (1) Austronesian languages, and (2) Sino-Tibetan languages (wikipedia.org).
The Formosan languages, a branch of Austronesian languages, have been spoken by the Taiwanese aborigines in Taiwan for thousands of years. Research on historical linguistics recognize Taiwan as the “Urheimat” (in linguistic terms: “place of origin”) of the whole Austronesian Language Family, since linguistic studies show the highest internal variety of the Formosan languages is found on Taiwan, including nine of the ten primary branches of the entire Austronesian Language Family. The most complex form of the proto-Austronesian language is found on Orchid Island (Lanyu) off the southeast coast of Taiwan. There are efforts to preserve the language spoken among the few remaining islanders on Lanyu (wikipedia.org).
Over the last 400 years, multiple waves of emigration onto the Island of Taiwan from the adjacent Chinese mainland brought several Sino-Tibetan languages into Taiwan. These languages include Taiwanese Hokkien, Hakka, and Mandarin. These are the major languages in the culture of present-day Taiwan (wikipedia.org).
Mandarin is officially the national language (國語; Guóyǔ) in Taiwan. In 1945, following the end of World War II, Mandarin was introduced as the official language and made compulsory in schools. Before 1945, Japanese was the official language and was taught in the schools. Since then, Mandarin has been established as a “lingua franca” among the various groups in Taiwan: (1) the majority Taiwanese-speaking Hoklo (Hokkien); (2) the Hakka who have their own spoken language; (3) the aboriginals who speak aboriginal languages; and (4) groups of Chinese who immigrated to the island from the mainland in 1949. The native tongue of the people groups who immigrated in 1949 may be any Chinese variant (wikipedia.org).
GEOGRAPHY of LANGUAGE
on the Island of Taiwan
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about the culture of languages on the Island of Taiwan,
and in the Special Municipalities, Counties & Cities of Taiwan.
- TAIWAN SPECIAL MUNICIPALITIES – 直轄市 (台灣) :
- TAIPEI CITY – 臺北市
- NEW TAIPEI CITY – 新北市
- KAOHSIUNG CITY – 高雄市
- TAICHUNG CITY – 臺中市
- TAINAN CITY – 臺南市
- TAOYUAN CITY – 桃園市
- COUNTIES – 縣 (台灣) :
- CHANGHUA COUNTY – 彰化縣
- CHIAYI COUNTY – 嘉義縣
- HSINCHU COUNTY – 新竹縣
- HUALIEN COUNTY – 花蓮縣
- KINMEN COUNTY – 金門縣
- LIENGHIANG COUNTY (MATSU ISLANDS) – 連江縣
- MIAOLI COUNTY – 苗栗縣
- NANTOU COUNTY – 南投縣
- PINGTUNG COUNTY – 屏東縣
- TAITUNG COUNTY – 臺東縣
- YILAN COUNTY – 宜蘭縣
- YUNLIN COUNTY – 雲林縣
- CITIES – 市 (台灣) :
- CHIAYI CITY – 嘉義市
- HSINCHU CITY – 新竹市
- KEELUNG – 基隆市
- PENGHU ISLANDS (Pescadores Is. Archipelago) – 澎湖縣
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