Regional dialects of Taiwanese languages.

Taiwanese culture has the same origin as the motherland, mainland China, and is part of Chinese culture. Taiwanese compatriots are descendants of mainland immigrants, so Taiwanese language and writing are also part of Chinese characters. At present, Mandarin is commonly used in Taiwan, which is what Taiwanese people call "Mandarin". The main dialects are Hokkien and Hakka. There are also dialects from various mainland China who immigrated to Taiwan from the mainland after the war, and there are also the languages ??of various Gaoshan tribes. According to incomplete statistics, among Taiwan's 22 million people, more than 14 million people speak Hokkien, about 4.5 million people speak Hakka, and about 10% speak other Chinese languages.

The popularity of Mandarin or "Mandarin" in Taiwan is very high, mainly due to the close ties between Taiwanese people and the mainland in history and the active promotion of the Kuomintang in Taiwan. Minnan dialect, commonly known as "Fu Lao dialect", originated in the Central Plains area of ????the Yellow River and Luoshui river basins, so it is also called "Heluo dialect". Due to the continuous wars in the Central Plains in history, people from the Heluo area gradually moved to Fujian and northern Guangdong, and formed different systems of dialects in northern, eastern and southern Fujian. The early mainland residents who immigrated to Taiwan mainly came from southern Fujian Province, so Hokkien people accounted for the majority of Taiwan's population, and Hokkien with Heluo language has also become the main dialect in Taiwan.

Taiwan’s Hakka language was mainly formed by Hakka immigrants from Guangdong and western Fujian. Hakka people are mainly distributed in Guangdong, Guangxi, Jiangxi, Fujian, Sichuan, Hunan, Yunnan and Guizhou provinces. The most concentrated areas are Meizhou, Huizhou, Chaozhou in Guangdong and Tingzhou in Fujian. There are currently about 45 million Hakkas in the world, and more than 7 million people live overseas, accounting for one-third of the total number of overseas Chinese. Taiwan is also one of the areas with the highest concentration of Hakka people, among which Hsinchu, Miaoli, Taoyuan and other places are the most concentrated. Therefore, Hakka language has also become an important dialect in Taiwan.

The characters used in Taiwan are also Chinese characters, but they still use traditional Chinese characters, which are different from the simplified characters after the mainland's character reform. However, with the increasing exchanges and exchanges between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait, the difference between the simplified and traditional characters on the two sides of the Taiwan Strait is shrinking. More and more people in Taiwan use simplified characters, which is conducive to cultural exchanges and the unification of writing and language across the Taiwan Strait. This unique language and writing is also the most important foundation and guarantee for the reunification of the motherland on both sides of the Taiwan Strait.