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Your Ultimate Guide to The Languages of Taiwan
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Your Ultimate Guide to The Languages of Taiwan

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. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); 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 (...