Taiwanese-language

Taiwanese Hokkien
臺灣話 / 臺灣語 Tâi-oân-oē / Tâi-oân-gí / Tâi-oân-gú
Pronunciation	"Tâi-gí/Tâi-gú" in different pronunciations  [tai˧˩ g̃i˥˩] / [tai˧˩ g̃u˥˩] (coastal) [tai˧˧ g̃i˥˩] / [tai˧˧ g̃u˥˩] (inland)
Native to	Taiwan
Native speakers	15 million (1997)
Language family	Sino-Tibetan Chinese Min Southern Min Quanzhang Taiwanese Hokkien
Writing system	Latin (pe̍h-ōe-jī), Han characters (traditional)
Official status
Official language in	None, de facto status in Taiwan as one of the statutory languages for public transport announcements and for the naturalization test in Taiwan.
Regulated by	None.
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Glottolog	taib1242  Taibei Hokkien
Linguasphere	79-AAA-jh
Proportion of residents aged 6 or older using Hokkien at home in Taiwan, Penghu, Kinmen & Matsu in 2010
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[tai˧˩ g̃i˥˩] / [tai˧˩ g̃u˥˩] (coastal)
[tai˧˧ g̃i˥˩] / [tai˧˧ g̃u˥˩] (inland)

Taiwanese Hokkien (/ˈhɒkiɛn, hɒˈkiɛn/;Chinese: ; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Tâi-oân Bân-lâm-gú; translated as Taiwanese Min Nan), commonly known as Taiwanese/Taiwanese Language (; Tâi-oân-oē / ; Tâi-oân-gú), is a branched-off variant of Hokkien spoken natively by about 70% of the population of Taiwan. It is spoken by the Taiwanese Hoklo people, who descended from immigrants from southern Fujian during the Qing dynasty. The Pe̍h-ōe-jī (POJ) romanization is a popular orthography for this variant of Hokkien.

Taiwanese Hokkien is generally similar to the speeches of Amoy, Quanzhou and Zhangzhou, as well as their dialectal forms used in Southeast Asia, but with enough differences in vocabulary and pronunciation to make their speakers somewhat mutually unintelligible. The mass popularity of Hokkien entertainment media from Taiwan has given prominence to the Taiwanese variety of Hokkien, especially since the 1980s.