Thursday, December 9, 2010

Their languages

Hello, Aneohaseyo, Ni Hao, konichiwa! 

This is a sample of Hokkien Song which is known as 福建话

The official language spoken in Taiwan is Mandarin, but due to the fact that many Taiwanese are of southern Fujianese descent, Min-nan (the Southern Min dialect, or Holo) is also widely spoken. The smaller groups of Hakka people and aborigines have also preserved their own languages. Many elderly people are also capable of speaking Japanese as they were subjected to Japanese education before Taiwan was returned to Chinese rule in 1945 after the Japanese occupation which lasted for half a century. The most popular foreign language in Taiwan is English, which is part of the regular school curriculum.

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