What ethnic groups are there in Taiwan Province?

Gaoshan, Atayal, Saisiyat, Bunun, Tsou, Rukai, Paiwan, Beinan, Amis, Taroko, Sakilaya, Thao Taiwan's aboriginal ethnic groups belong to the Austronesian language family, and the ethnic group belongs to the Austronesian language family. Malay race. The Austronesian language family is one of the most widely distributed in the world, and Taiwan is the northernmost point of its distribution. The Chinese government refers to all Austronesian ethnic groups in Taiwan as the Gaoshan ethnic group.

There are now 16 tribes whose status has been officially recognized. They can be roughly divided into the aboriginal tribe and the Hepingpu tribe. They were originally widely distributed in mountainous areas and gathered into tribes along the alluvial plains. The aboriginal tribes currently retain their own languages. , customs and tribal structure, but are facing the problem of rapid modernization, and most of the Pingpu people have lost their original language and customs.

14% of the population are immigrants from other provinces who immigrated to Taiwan from mainland China provinces with the Kuomintang government after 1945. With the development of cross-strait exchanges and internationalization, Taiwan now has tens of thousands of mainland, Hong Kong and Macao spouses, 100,000 foreign spouses, and 300,000 foreign workers, known as Taiwan's new residents.

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The Han dialects mainly include Hokkien (Taiwanese, Taiwanese) used by the southern Fujian ethnic group and Hakka used by the Hakka ethnic group. In addition, Fuzhou dialect (Mindong dialect) is spoken in Matsu area, and Putian dialect is spoken in Wuqiu Township, Kinmen County. Taiwan's aboriginal ethnic group (Gaoshan ethnic group) speaks the Taiwanese Austronesian language group, but the number of people who can speak their mother tongue is gradually declining.

The most popular foreign language in Taiwan is English, which is one of the important courses in education. Japanese is the second most spoken foreign language in Taiwan. Taiwanese pinyin uses Chinese phonetic symbols. Taiwan's Chinese Roman Pinyin system is the internationally accepted Hanyu Pinyin (2008-). In the early days, the Wade-German Pinyin method was used. At present, place names (except county and city names), street names, and personal names are all translated in Chinese pinyin.

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