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Not really, many Taiwan residents conduct business in Standard Mandarin, but speak in Taiwanese Hokkien at home. It's called Taiwanese because it has since drif
by jhanschoo 9y ago
Not really, many Taiwan residents conduct business in Standard Mandarin, but speak in Taiwanese Hokkien at home. It's called Taiwanese because it has since drifted from mainland Hokkien, and sociolinguists consider Taiwanese a prestige dialect of Hokkien due to its cultural output and Japanisms.