what language is spoken in taiwan?
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Mandarin and Taiwanese are the primary languages. The further south you go, the more Taiwanese and less Mandarin you will here. Hakka is also still spoken within certain communities, as well as some indigenous languages.\n\nWhile there are a fair amount of people who understand Japanese and Cantonese, it is quite unlikely that you will hear these spoken.
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Chinese is a family of closely-related but mutually unintelligible languages. These languages are known variously as fāngyán (regional languages), dialects of Chinese or varieties of Chinese. In all over 1.2 billion people speak one or more varieties of Chinese. \n\nAll varieties of Chinese belong to the Sino-Tibetan family of languages and each one has its own dialects and sub-dialects, which are more or less mutually intelligible. \n\nAll varieties of Chinese are tonal. This means that each syllable can have a number of different meanings depending on the intonation with which it is pronounced. For example Mandarin has 4 tones, Cantonese has between 6 and 9 (it depends who you ask). \n\nMost people in China and Taiwan who don't speak Mandarin as their first language, can speak or at least understand it a bit. However in Hong Kong and Macau few people speak Mandarin, so they tend to use English to communicate with people from other parts of China or Taiwan. \n\nCantonese is spoken by about 66 million people in Guangdong and Guangxi provinces and Hainan island in China, and also in Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Malaysia and many other countries.
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantonese_(linguistics)\n\nMandarin ---(Traditional: 北方話, Simplified: 北方话, Hanyu Pinyin: Běifānghuà, lit. "Northern speech" OR 北方方言 Hanyu Pinyin: Běifāng Fāngyán, lit. "Northern dialects"), is a category of Chinese dialects spoken across most of northern and southwestern China. The term "Mandarin" can also refer to Standard Mandarin, which is based on the Mandarin dialect spoken in Beijing. Standard Mandarin is the official spoken language of the People's Republic of China, the Republic of China (Taiwan), and one of the official spoken languages of Singapore. When taken as an independent language, as is often done in academic literature, Mandarin has more speakers than any other language.\n\n"Mandarin" usually refers to only standard Mandarin in everyday usage. The broad academic concept of "Mandarin" encompasses a large number of linguistically related dialects, some less mutually intelligible than others, and is very rarely used outside of academic circles as a self-description. Instead, when asked to describe the spoken form they are using, Chinese speaking a form of Mandarin will describe the variant that they are speaking, for example Sichuan dialect or Northeast China dialect, and may not recognize that it is in fact classified by linguists as a form of "Mandarin". Nor is there a common "Mandarin" identity based on language, though there are strong regional identities centered around individual Mandarin dialects.\n\nLike all other varieties of Chinese, there is plenty of dispute as to whether Mandarin is a language or a dialect. Please see here for the issues surrounding this dispute.
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I'm a taiwanese and i can answer you this question...my english isn't really good so....\n\npeople live in Hong Kong and taiwan write Traditional Chinese ......but others in china write simplified Chinese \n  \nin taiwan have Mandarin Chinese(chinese),Southern Fujian language and hakka\n\nold people in taiwan like my grandmom ,grandpa always spoken Southern Fujian language but some middle-ager usually spoken Southern Fujian language when people talk with Southern Fujian language \n\nhakka most can spoken Mandarin Chinese(chinese),Southern Fujian language and hakka\n\nin china there are more different language like Cantonese\n\nin china different province spoken different language
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Taipei 101 in Taipei, Taiwan.
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Yes.  Taiwan is recognized by the United States as an independent nation.
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Mandarin is the common language used throughout China. Cantonese is limited to the Guangdong province only. Go with Mandarin.\n\nBtw, all Chinese languages and dialects are tonal. Cantonese have seven tonal differences in itself and Hokkien has 12. Mandarin only has 4.\n\nWith the above, you can choose for yourself.
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There are many different "dialects" such as Mandarin (the national language AKA "putonghua"), Cantonese, Hakka, Shanghainese, Minnan, and the list goes on and on. Cantonese is spoken in Hong Kong and a couple provinces in China. All education in all Chinese regions, including Taiwan, is done in Mandarin. Mandarin is the only language you will want to learn for business in China. I live in China and speak fluent Mandarin.\n\nIn fact you can check back on my website from time to time as I plan to have Mandarin lessons one day soon.\n\nwww.culturev.com\n\nI found a few sites for you below.\n\nZai Jian! (see you later)
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i do. i'm from taipei, taiwan. you have more questions about the language or culture. ask me!
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The official language is Lao. There are 3 main dialect groups. Luang Prabang Province, Vientiane Province Lao, Savanakhet Province Lao. \nThai is also spoken, it is similar to Lao. \nAnd that's all I know. Hope it helps!!
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which language is it...
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Most Commonly Spoken Languages \nRank Language Number of Speakers \n1 Chinese (Mandarin) 1,000,000,000 + \n2 English 508,000,000 \n3 Hindustani (Hindi and Urdu) 497,000,000 \n4 Spanish 392,000,000 \n5 Russian 277,000,000 \n6 Arabic 246,000,000 \n7 Bengali 211,000,000 \n8 Portuguese 191,000,000 \n9 Malay-Indonesian 159,000,000 \n10 French 129,000,000
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try this\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_language
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Yes it is and the official language is Mandarin and the written language is the same no matter what dialect they speak.  The definition of a Nation-State is not based on languages but rather on geographical boundaries.  There are numerous "nations" that have multiple official languages.  Singapore and the Netherlands are just a couple examples.
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My wife is also from Taiwan, I've found an excellent resource for learning Mandarin at:\nhttp://www.chinesepod.com/\n\nThis is a podcast for newbie, elementary, intermediate and advanced level.  Just download the mp3s and put them on your iPod, or burn them to an audio CD.
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Pakistan has two national languages: Urdu and English.\n\nIn Urdu it's called پاکستان\n\nIn English it's called Pakistan.\n\nWhy Taiwan is also called Formosa and also called the Republic of China is a long question indeed.
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That isn't quite so easy as it sounds.  There are several such family trees, as the various Chinese dialects form one, certain Native American languages another, and so on.  The one most people are familiar with is Indo-European, which includes English, the Germanic languages, the Slavic languages, Sanskrit (and thus most languages of India), Greek and the Romance languages (that is, Latin and its descendants).  Another such tree is Finno-Ugric, which includes Finnish and Hungarian (Magyar).