About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 83. Chapters: Mandarin Chinese, Taiwanese Hokkien, Standard Chinese, Varieties of Chinese, Teochew dialect, Sichuanese Mandarin, List of varieties of Chinese, Cantonese, Shanghainese, Wu Chinese, Singaporean Hokkien, Min Nan, Literary and colloquial readings of Chinese characters, Puxian Min, Penang Hokkien, Min Chinese, Beijing dialect, Wenzhounese, Changzhou dialect, Jin Chinese, Suzhou dialect, Lan-nang, Changsha dialect, Quzhou dialect, Xiang Chinese, Huizhou Chinese, Han'er language, Leizhou Min, Pinghua, Shuangfeng dialect, Northeastern Mandarin, Jian'ou dialect, Hohhot dialect, Taizhou dialect, Jinan dialect, Jiangshan dialect, Nanchang dialect, Luoyang dialect, Hainanese, Sze Yup, Lower Yangtze Mandarin, Yichun dialect, Sichuanese Standard Mandarin, Minjiang dialect, Taihu Wu dialects, Yugan dialect, Min Dong, Daye dialect, Min Bei, Southwestern Mandarin, Xuzhou dialect, Ningbo dialect, Ji-Lu Mandarin, Longyan Min, Qingdao dialect, Shenyang Mandarin, Tong-Tai Dialect, Yuebei Tuhua dialect, Karamay dialect, Huanna, Jinxiang dialect, Mango, Lan-Yin Mandarin, Harbin dialect, Central Plains Mandarin, Min Zhong, Middle Tong-Tai Dialect, Wuxi dialect, Shaojiang Min, Dalian dialect, Waxianghua, Jiao-Liao Mandarin, Kunming dialect, Guanzhong dialect, Qingtian dialect, Maojia dialect, Chuqu Wu dialects, Jiangyin dialect, Qihai dialect, Weihai dialect, Chengdu dialect, Lingling Chinese. Excerpt: Taiwanese Hokkien ( ), commonly known as Taiwanese (Tai-oan-o or Tai-gi ), is the Hokkien dialect of Min Nan as spoken by about 70% of the population of Taiwan. The largest linguistic group in Taiwan, in which Hokkien is considered a native language, is known as Hoklo or Holo (H -lo). The correspondence between language and ethnicity is generally true, though not absolute, as some Hoklo speak Hokkien poorly while some non-Hoklo s...
