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	Konrad's Taiwanese Languages Page
		Taiwanese Holo, also known as Hoklo, {Hokkien, Fukkien, Fujian}, Southern Min, etc. Like Cantonese, Hakka, and a lot of other Southern Chinese languages, Holo has preserved the sounds of Ancient Chinese better than Mandarin.
		Mandarin Chinese is a dialect of Han language that was foreign to Taiwan until 1945, when the KMT forced Mandarin upon the Taiwanese under a ROC monolingual National Language Policy.
		His research interests are: Taiwanese linguistics, sociolinguistics, cultural anthropology, language planning, language, gender, ethnic group, and nationalism, the de-Sinicization in east Asia, post-colonial studies, writing systems of the world.
	www.wam.umd.edu /~oniows/taiwan/languages.html (442 words)

	Language School Explorer - Information about Chinese_spoken_language
		In southern China where the difference between Standard Mandarin and the local dialect is particularly pronounced, well-educated Chinese are generally fluent in Mandarin, and most people have at least a good passive knowledge of it, in addition to being native speakers of the local dialect.
		The local dialect (be it nonstandard Mandarin or non-Mandarin altogether) is generally considered more intimate and is used among close family members and friends and in everyday conversation within the local area.
		Standard Mandarin is usually considered more formal and is required when speaking to a person who does not understand the local dialect.
	www.school-explorer.com /info/Chinese_spoken_language (1827 words)

	Chinese_language information.
		However, the rise of Northern and Taiwanese immigrants has led to the increase in the use of Mandarin and various Min dialects.
		In the sense that the written language is based on Standard Mandarin and the dialects are (for the most part) spoken but not written languages, the situation in China is a complex and interesting case of diglossia.
		The non-Mandarin speakers in southern China also continued to use their regionalects for every aspect of life.
	language.school-explorer.com /Chinese (7035 words)

	Mandarin pop - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mandarin, Cantopop, and Taiwanese language pop are available to overseas Chinese and Taiwanese communities such as San Francisco Bay Area, Greater Los Angeles/Orange County Metropolitan Areas, and communities such as Flushing in the New York City Metropolitan Area in the United States, and Vancouver, BC and Toronto Metropolitan Areas in Canada.
		Taiwanese language pop as well as some of the Mandarin pop resembles and is influenced by the Japanese enka style of music, which is equivalent to Country Music.
		Pop in Taiwanese language is composed of artists predominantly from Taiwan, although one artist, Eric Moo, is from Malaysia.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mandarin_pop (351 words)

	Center for Chinese Studies: Faculty: Robert Cheng
		Professor Cheng is a leading figure in the research of the Taiwanese language: the development of its orthography, the comparison of its phonology and syntax with those of Mandarin, and the sociolinguistics of its use in Taiwan.
		[Taiwanese and Mandarin Structures and Their Developmental Trends in Taiwan].
		“A Comparison of Taiwanese, Taiwan Mandarin, and Peking Mandarin.&; Language 61.2 (
	www.chinesestudies.hawaii.edu /community/faculty/cheng_robert.html (351 words)

	ITIA Members - Agencies and corporate members
		Source language(s): Afrikaans, Albanian, Arabic, Basque, Bengali, Bulgarian, Cantonese, Catalan, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Eritrean, Farsi, Finnish, Flemish, French, German, Greek, Gujurati, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Kosovan, Latvian, Lithuanian, Mandarin, Norwegian, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbocroat, Slovak, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Taiwanese, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese, Welsh, Yoruban.
		Target language(s): Afrikaans, Albanian, Arabic, Basque, Bengali, Bulgarian, Cantonese, Catalan, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Eritrean, Farsi, Finnish, Flemish, French, German, Greek, Gujurati, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Kosovan, Latvian, Lithuanian, Mandarin, Norwegian, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbocroat, Slovak, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Taiwanese, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese, Welsh, Yoruban.
		Source language(s): Afrikaans, Albanian, Arabic, Basque, Bengali, Bulgarian, Cantonese, Catalan, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Eritrean, Farsi, Finnish, Flemish, French, German, Greek, Gujurati, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Kosovan, Latvian, Lithuanian, Mandarin, Norwegian, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbocroat, Sign Language, Slovak, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Taiwanese, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese, Welsh, Yoruban
	www.translatorsassociation.ie /agen.htm (351 words)

	Taiwanese (linguistics) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Taiwanese tends to get used more in rural areas, while Mandarin is used more in urban settings, particularly in Taipei.
		In most cases, Taiwanese speakers write using the script called Han characters as in Mandarin, although there are a number of special characters which are unique to Taiwanese and which are sometimes used in informal writing.
		Although the use of Taiwanese over Mandarin was historically part of the Taiwan independence movement, the linkage between politics and language is not as strong as it once was.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Taiwanese_(linguistics) (351 words)

	Taiwanese (linguistics) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Taiwanese tends to get used more in rural areas, while Mandarin is used more in urban settings, particularly in Taipei.
		In most cases, Taiwanese speakers write using the script called Han characters as in Mandarin, although there are a number of special characters which are unique to Taiwanese and which are sometimes used in informal writing.
		Mandarin, which remains the de facto official spoken language of the Republic of China and is spoken fluently by about 80 % of Taiwanese.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Taiwanese_language (351 words)

	Learn Taiwanese
		The truth is, most children in Taiwan speak Taiwanese as their mother tongue and learn Mandarin as a second language in school, though school is not necessarily their first contact with it.
		This means that Mandarin is considered an important language without doubt, but Taiwanese will get you much further in daily life situations in Taiwan.
		The language originates in Fujian province (Fujian is a Mandarin pronunciation), the old name of which used to be Hokkien (from the Min pronunciation).
	www.glossika.com /en/dict/taiwanese/foreword.htm (351 words)

	Taiwanese Cinema
		Dialect film production in Taiwanese soon declined for two reasons: 1) the government attempted to unify the country by declaring Mandarin Chinese the official language of public discourse, and 2) the low-budget fare of dialect films were outclassed by the government-subsidized Mandarin films.
		Hou Hsiao-hsien may be the filmmaker who has dealt most carefully with the trilingual phenomenon (Mandarin, Taiwanese Amoy and Hakka) in Taiwan.
		Unlike standard Taiwanese fare, this film cast non- or semi-professional actors instead of famous stars and did not follow a traditional narrative structure or fit into any generic category.
	cinemaspace.berkeley.edu /Papers/CityOfSadness/behind2.html (351 words)

	Teachers
		It includes Mandarin Phonetic Symbols II, Taiwanese phonetic system, Hakka phonetic system, Dialectal phonetic symbol system, and so on.
		The Content of Mandarin Phonetic Symbols II It offers Table of Mandarin Phonetic Symbols II, Table of Comparison: MPS I vs. MPS II.
		It introduces the Romanization system of Taiwanese, and offers the practice of Taiwanese Romanization system.
	www.scu.edu.tw /english/webresources/web5/web52.htm (351 words)

	Taiwanese language and pronunciation
		Today about 70% of the population of Taiwan (15 million people) speak Taiwanese and most also speak Mandarin.
		Outside Taipei most people prefer to speak Taiwanese, though will speak Mandarin if they have to.
		Taiwanese is a dialect of Mĭn Nán (Southern Min) spoken in Taiwan.
	www.omniglot.com /writing/taiwanese.htm (264 words)

	Learn Taiwanese
		The truth is, most children in Taiwan speak Taiwanese as their mother tongue and learn Mandarin as a second language in school, though school is not necessarily their first contact with it.
		A large number of families speak Taiwanese amongst each other but use Mandarin with their children, thus helping their children not find it so difficult when they get outside or have to go to school.
		This section of the website on Taiwanese Southern Min is not only designed for language learners who wish to study some Taiwanese, but also as a reference guide to the Taiwanese language.
	www.glossika.com /en/dict/taiwanese/foreword.htm (947 words)

	Taiwanese Writing Systems
		Even though today Hanzi is taught for Mandarin, a Taiwanese speaker can transfer their Hanzi skill to Taiwanese for 70-80 percent of the time.
		Dan proposes to unify Taiwanese, Hakka with Mandarin pinyin.
		TLPA (Taiwanese Language Phonetic Alphabetics) is a recently proposed standard that "fixes" Church Romanization by incorporating some of the computer adjustments and a few cosmetic modifications.
	daiwanway.dynip.com /tw/writing.shtml (3516 words)

	Taiwanese Cinema
		Dialect film production in Taiwanese soon declined for two reasons: 1) the government attempted to unify the country by declaring Mandarin Chinese the official language of public discourse, and 2) the low-budget fare of dialect films were outclassed by the government-subsidized Mandarin films.
		Unlike standard Taiwanese fare, this film cast non- or semi-professional actors instead of famous stars and did not follow a traditional narrative structure or fit into any generic category.
		Yet this bourgeois-humanistic ideology in re-directing the look of Taiwanese cinema does generate debates when a new critical regime came into power with the rise and success of the new films.
	cinemaspace.berkeley.edu /Papers/CityOfSadness/behind2.html (2493 words)

	Taiwanese language and pronunciation
		Outside Taipei most people prefer to speak Taiwanese, though will speak Mandarin if they have to.
		Today about 70% of the population of Taiwan (15 million people) speak Taiwanese and most also speak Mandarin.
		Taiwanese is a dialect of Mĭn Nán (Southern Min) spoken in Taiwan.
	www.omniglot.com /writing/taiwanese.htm (2493 words)

	Taiwanese language and pronunciation
		Today about 70% of the population of Taiwan (15 million people) speak Taiwanese and most also speak Mandarin.
		Outside Taipei most people prefer to speak Taiwanese, though will speak Mandarin if they have to.
		Taiwanese is a dialect of Mĭn Nán (Southern Min) spoken in Taiwan.
	www.omniglot.com /writing/taiwanese.htm (2493 words)

	Music of Taiwan - Chinese Music - Chinese Art
		With the arrival of the KMT government in 1949, native Taiwanese culture was suppressed, and Mandarin languageMandarin, as the official language of the Republic of China, was promoted.
		Taiwanese pop was sung in a native dialect and was popular among older and working-class listeners; it was strongly influenced by Japanese enka.
		In contrast, Mandarin pop appealed to younger listeners and was greatly aided by the state support of the Mandarin language.
	www.famouschinese.com /virtual/Music_of_Taiwan (935 words)

	Taiwanese Language De-Cal!
		There are sounds in Taiwanese which are not found in Mandarin, therefore ㄅㄆㄇㄈ is limited in the Taiwanese sounds it can cover.
		For those who can read, there are many questions as to how certain characters should be pronounced, while many Taiwanese sounds simply do not have character representation as those found in Mandarin.
		Due to the fact that Taiwanese is an orally passed-down language, it would be easier to learn a system of phonetics that uses letters found in the English alphabet that serve as a pronunciation guide.
	www.ocf.berkeley.edu /~taioanoe/about.htm (935 words)

	Mandarin dialects - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		For example, the Mandarin spoken in Taiwan by students who speak Taiwanese (a dialect of Southern Min) or Hakka as their mother tongue is usually spoken with a grammar and accent that renders it different from the Kuoyu standard, creating a version of Mandarin commonly known as Taiwanese Mandarin.
		Mandarin varieties of Guilin and Kunming are inherently unintelligible to speakers of Putonghua.
		Mandarin, when used in the broad sense to refer to most of the Chinese dialects spoken over northern and southwestern China, covers many variations.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dialects_of_Mandarin (1975 words)

	All Empires History Forum: Beijing Mandarin VS Taiwanese Mandarin
		The Taiwanese Mandarin is similar to the Fujianese Mandarin in Mainland.
		Mandarin and Taiwanese were all developed in Mainland China.
		a good way to compare the two is to watch the news....listen to the broadcasters, you will realise the way in which a mainland and the taiwanese news anchor would sound almost the same...except a mainland broadcaster would probably sound more "thick" and have more of a "layer" if you will, to it.
	www.allempires.com /forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=861 (1685 words)

	All Empires History Forum: Beijing Mandarin VS Taiwanese Mandarin
		The Taiwanese Mandarin is similar to the Fujianese Mandarin in Mainland.
		Mandarin and Taiwanese were all developed in Mainland China.
		a good way to compare the two is to watch the news....listen to the broadcasters, you will realise the way in which a mainland and the taiwanese news anchor would sound almost the same...except a mainland broadcaster would probably sound more "thick" and have more of a "layer" if you will, to it.
	www.allempires.com /forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=861 (1685 words)

	Butterflyblue: Travel Journal, Taiwan
		They don't speak Mandarin at home but Taiwanese, and their Mandarin was difficult to understand.
		The music I liked best was by a Taiwanese rapper named Stanley Huang (黃立行) and his brother Jeff Huang, who is a member of the rap group Machi (麻吉).
		One is that Taiwanese people are more comfortable touching each other.
	butterflyblue2004.blogspot.com /2004/12/travel-journal-taiwan.html (1685 words)

	Selected Film Reviews
		Wang Tsu Hsien is the Taiwanese form of romanized Mandarin.
		I've been graciously informed by several vistors to this that since Joey is Taiwanese this should be the preferred form of romanization.
		Wang Xu Xian is romanized Mandarin based on the Pinyin system.
	home.hawaii.rr.com /dsn/oddssods.htm (1685 words)

	Art1905.txt
		Taipeh's Move To Bring Dialects At Par With Mandarin Confuses Taiwanese Channel Newsasia March 19, 2003 Asia Pacific While not united in political ideology, Taiwan and China do have a common trait - the use of Mandarin as a shared national language.
		The aim - to make the status of Mandarin and 13 other languages used by the island's aboriginal tribes, such as ho-lo and hakka, at par with one another.
		But as Channel NewsAsia finds out, there are indications that the Taiwanese government no longer wants to promote the use of this language.
	www.asu.edu /educ/epsl/LPRU/newsarchive/Art1905.txt (405 words)

	Culture of Taiwan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mandarin is taught in schools, however most spoken media is split between Mandarin and Taiwanese.
		Taiwanese culture has also influenced the west: Bubble Tea is a popular tea drink available in both Europe and the United States.
		A majority of the Taiwanese population can be considered religious believers, most of whom identify themselves as Buddhists or Taoists.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Culture_of_Taiwan (405 words)

	Notary public legal services from multilingual Vivien Lee, N.P. (English, Mandarin, Taiwanese, Cantonese, Teo Chew) - Vancouver, B.C. Canada with special experience in immigration & business services
		Non-native English speakers will welcome not just Vivien's knowledge and professionalism but also her fluency in Cantonese, Mandarin Chinese and its principal dialects (Taiwanese, Fukien, Toisan, and Teochew) as well as some basic knowledge of Malay.
		Notary public legal services from multilingual Vivien Lee, N.P. (English, Mandarin, Taiwanese, Cantonese, Teo Chew) - Vancouver, B.C. Canada with special experience in immigration & business services
		Integrity, tact, friendliness, knowledge, and good judgement are the hallmarks of Vivien's notary practice.
	www.canadanotary.com (256 words)

	Oxford County Library - Ingersoll Ontario
		Remarkable about this plaque is that it is a translation of the existing G.L. Mackay plaque, with Mandarin characters on one side and Romanized Taiwanese on the other, the language that Mackay mastered and used in his 29 years of teaching, missionary work and medical care for the people of northern Taiwan.
		This new plaque, which contains text in Mandarin and Romanized Taiwanese, is placed beside a previous English-French plaque which was unveiled on June 2, 2001, the 100 th anniversary of his death.
		Krista Michelle Breen, author of Quicksand: The Mysterious Disappearance of Dakotaroo, was welcomed by readers of all ages on her visit to the Ingersoll Library on August 11, 2004.
	www.ocl.net /whats_new (256 words)

	Learn a little Taiwanese
		Try to attend a Taiwanese-speaking church during your time of Taiwanese language study for here is a group of people who have chosen that church because they feel more comfortable using Taiwanese than Mandarin.
		Taiwanese Survival Course is intensely practical and, in order to gain maximum benefit, the content of each day's lesson should be practiced with your Taiwanese friends and acquaintances.
		Taiwanese-speaking neighbors (especially old grandmothers with plenty of time and a limited range of topics) or Taiwanese shopkeepers are both ideal for conversation practice.
	users.aol.com /ChineseLLC/taiwanes.htm (436 words)

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