Taiwanese Hokkien

Summary

Taiwanese Hokkien is a natural language^[1]. It ranks in the top 10% of natural_language entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (919 views/month).^[2]

Key Facts

• Taiwanese Hokkien's image is recorded as 足濟人毋知影有臺文這款物件.svg^[3].
• Taiwanese Hokkien's instance of is recorded as natural language^[4].
• Taiwanese Hokkien's instance of is recorded as modern language^[5].
• Taiwanese Hokkien's instance of is recorded as dialect^[6].
• Taiwanese Hokkien's instance of is recorded as regiolect^[7].
• Taiwanese Hokkien's instance of is recorded as varieties of Chinese^[8].
• Taiwanese Hokkien's audio is recorded as 維基電台臺語新聞報道（2016-06-29）.ogg^[9].
• Taiwanese Hokkien's ISO 639-6 code is recorded as qtik^[10].
• Taiwanese Hokkien's subclass of is recorded as Hokkien^[11].
• Taiwanese Hokkien's IETF language tag is recorded as nan-TW^[12].
• Taiwanese Hokkien's Commons category is recorded as Taiwanese Hokkien^[13].
• Taiwanese Hokkien's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0g1jw^[14].
• Taiwanese Hokkien's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Chinese language in Taiwan^[15].
• Taiwanese Hokkien's number of speakers, writers, or signers is recorded as {'amount': '+18000000'}^[16].
• Taiwanese Hokkien's Glottolog code is recorded as taib1242^[17].
• Taiwanese Hokkien's Linguasphere code is recorded as 79-AAA-jh^[18].
• Taiwanese Hokkien's official name is recorded as {'lang': 'nan-hant', 'text': '臺灣台語'}^[19].
• Taiwanese Hokkien's official name is recorded as {'lang': 'zh-tw', 'text': '臺灣臺語'}^[20].
• Taiwanese Hokkien's WALS lect code is recorded as taq^[21].
• Taiwanese Hokkien's has characteristic is recorded as Chinese tone^[22].
• Taiwanese Hokkien's has characteristic is recorded as tone sandhi^[23].
• Taiwanese Hokkien's distribution map is recorded as Home usage of Taiwanese by district in Taiwan gradient map (2010).svg^[24].
• Taiwanese Hokkien's different from is recorded as Formosan^[25].
• Taiwanese Hokkien's different from is recorded as Taiwanese Hakka^[26].
• Taiwanese Hokkien's uses is recorded as Taiwan Taigi Recommended Characters^[27].

Why It Matters

Taiwanese Hokkien ranks in the top 10% of natural_language entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (919 views/month).^[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 23 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[28] It is known by 62 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[29]