Though it may (or indeed, may not) be a country, it’s hard to deny that the languages of Taiwan aren’t incredible. A storied history, including numerous wars and civil wars, have left the island with people who speak hundreds of languages…
As we almost all countries, some of these languages are incredibly well spoken – with hundreds of millions, if not billions of speakers worldwide – whilst others are much smaller, and only really spoken in Taiwan.
National Languages of Taiwan
Taiwanese Mandarin (19.68 Million)
Taiwanese Hokkien (19.03 Million)
Taiwanese Hakka (1.56 Million)
Formosan (330,000)
Matsu (235,750)
Immigrant Languages of Taiwan
Javanese (215,000)
Vietnamese (200,000)
Thai (145,000)
Indonesian (140,000)
Tagalog (110,000)
Cantonese (100,000)
Foreign Languages of Taiwan
English (15 Million)
Spanish (120,000)
Japanese (70,000)
Korean (40,000)
Dutch (5,000)
What do you think about the languages of Taiwan? Do you speak any of them (besides English of course?) Tell me in the comments!