Is there a difference between Minnan and Taiwanese?

Taiwanese is Minnan, there is no difference.

Minnan dialect is mainly distributed in Fujian Province and Taiwan Province Province.

Minnan dialect is mainly distributed in Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, Xiamen, Longyan, xinluo district and zhangping city, Youxi in Otawa in Sanming, Fuding and Xiapu in Ningde, Jiaocheng and Fuqing.

Besides Fujian, the most popular Minnan language is Taiwan Province Province, and the population of Taiwan Province Province who can speak Minnan language accounts for about 80% of Taiwan Province.

Extended data:

Taiwanese (Taiwanese Pinyin: t? I-you? N-uē, vernacular word: t? i-o？ N-oē, Minnan Pinyin: Dáiwán wê), also known as Taiwanese or Taiwanese Minnan, is used to refer to Minnan dialect used in Taiwan Province Province of China, which belongs to Zhang Quan dialect in linguistic classification and is very close to Xiamen dialect, with an estimated homology ratio of 99%.

Since the Ming and Qing Dynasties, especially after the opening of the sea ban, a large number of mainland immigrants have entered Taiwan Province Province, most of them are Heluo people in Zhangzhou and Quanzhou in southern Fujian. The language they brought replaced the language of the indigenous minorities in Taiwan Province Province, became the dominant language in Taiwan Province Province, and gradually evolved into a language different from its native place. During the Japanese occupation period, it was called "Taiwan Province people, Taiwan Province people and Taiwan Province people" to distinguish other languages.

Although Japanese and Mandarin successively replaced the status of lingua franca during the Japanese occupation period and after the government moved to Taiwan, Taiwanese is still the largest mother tongue and the most widely used language in Taiwan Province Province.

According to the Taiwan Province Province Yearbook in 2009, about 73% people in Taiwan Province Province can 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.

On the other hand, the term "Taiwanese" can broadly refer to "various languages circulating in Taiwan Province Province", including the native minority languages in Taiwan Province Province, the Taiwan Province dialect in Minnan and Hakka dialect.

The eastern Fujian dialects in Fuqing and Pingtan in eastern Fujian have the characteristics of southern Fujian dialect in phonology and vocabulary, which are not found in other local dialects in eastern Fujian.

Reference source: Baidu Encyclopedia-Minnan Language