What language do people speak in Taiwan Province Province?

People in Taiwan Province Province speak Taiwanese, which is by far the largest mother tongue and the most widely used language in Taiwan Province Province.

According to the Taiwan Province Provincial Yearbook, about 73% people in Taiwan Province Province speak Taiwanese. Zhangzhou immigrants mainly live in the central plain, northern coastal areas and Yanglan plain, so it is called Neipu cavity. Quanzhou immigrants mainly live in the central coast and Taipei basin, known as Haikou, and the southern part is a mixed area of Quanzhou and Zhangzhou.

Therefore, the statement that "Quanzhou people live in the seashore and Zhangzhou people live in the inland plain" only conforms to this distribution in the central part of Taiwan Province Province. Generally speaking, Taiwanese is mixed with Zhang Quan dialect in the north, Pukou dialect in the south-central plain and coastal dialect in the south-central.

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The Formation of Taiwan Province Dialect;

During the more than 200 years when the Qing court ruled Taiwan Province Province, the number of Fujian people coming to Taiwan increased sharply, and the language of immigrants spread to all parts of Taiwan Province Province with their footprints. In the future, due to the convenient transportation and the floating population, the two dialects in Zhang Quan were confused, which led to a relatively pure accent in a few areas such as Yilan and Lugang, and a new Minnan language that was neither Zhang Quan nor Zhang Quan was widely used in other places.

The linguist Hong (1987, 1-2) called it "Lan". After the Sino-Japanese War, the Qing court was defeated and ceded Taiwan Province Province to Japan. During Japan's rule of Taiwan Province Province, the policy of "Mandarin" (Japanese) was implemented in education, and Japanese was dominant in politics, which inevitably affected the Taiwanese language used by the people. Even today, traces of Japanese influence can still be found in Taiwan Province dialect.

1945, at the end of World War II, Japan was defeated and the National Government accepted Taiwan Province Province; After the war, there was a civil war in China and the Kuomintang government was defeated. "Transfer" a large number of troops and refugees to Taiwan Province Province. This is the largest migration activity in the history of Taiwan Province Province. Under the influence of the "Mandarin" (this time, Beijing dialect) movement, Taiwanese dialect has once again been added to the new corpus.

However, due to the disconnection with Chinese mainland in the past 100 years, there are subtle differences between Taiwanese and native Minnan.

Baidu Encyclopedia-Taiwan Province Dialect