Taiwanese Hokkien

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Taiwanese Hokkien ( HOK-ee-en, US also HOH-kee-en) or Taiwanese (Chinese: 臺灣話; Tâi-lô: Tâi-uân-ūe), also called 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. It is spoken by a significant portion of those Taiwanese people who are descended from Hoklo immigrants of southern Fujian. It is one of the national languages of Taiwan. Taiwanese Hokkien is generally similar to Hokkien spoken in Xiamen (Amoy), Quanzhou, and Zhangzhou, as well as dialects used in Southeast Asia, such as Singaporean Hokkien, Penang Hokkien, Philippine Hokkien, Medan Hokkien, and Southern Peninsular Malaysian Hokkien. It is mutually intelligible with the Amoy and Zhangzhou varieties at the mouth of the Jiulong River in China, and with Philippine Hokkien to the south in the Philippines, spoken altogether by about...

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