What is Taiwanese Hokkien?
[[File:Home usage of Taiwanese by district in Taiwan gradient map (2010).svg|thumb|Proportion of residents aged 6 or older using [[Hokkien]] at home in [[Taiwan]], [[Penghu]], [[Kinmen]] & Matsu in 2010.]] '''Taiwanese Hokkien''' or '''Taiwanese Minnan''' (臺灣閩南語), also known as '''Taigi''' or '''Taiwanese''', is a type of [[Hokkien language]] spoken in [[Taiwan]]. Many [[Taiwanese]] people who came from southern [[Fujian]] speak it. It's one of the major [[Language|languages]] used in [[Taiwan]] as about 70% of [[Taiwanese]] people speak it.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Chinese, Min Nan {{!}} Ethnologue Free|url=https://www.ethnologue.com/language/nan/|access-date=2023-12-24|website=Ethnologue (Free All)|language=en}}</ref> Taiwanese is similar to Amoy Hokkien, Quanzhou Hokkien, and Zhangzhou Hokkien, as well as their versions in [[Southeast Asia]] like [[Singaporean Hokkien]] and Philippine Hokkien. It's easy to understand for about 3 million people, including those who speak Amoy Hokkien and Zhangzhou Hokkien in mainland [[China]] and Philippine Hokkien in the south. The popularity of [[Hokkien]] media from [[Taiwan]] has made the Taiwanese version more well-known, especially since the 1980s.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Reclassifying ISO 639-3 [nan]: An Empirical Approach to Mutual Intelligibility and Ethnolinguistic Distinctions|url=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/KIRINPUTRA/reclassifying-ISO-639-3-nan/main/Reclassifying_ISO_639-3_%5Bnan%5D__An_Empirical_Approach_to_Mutual_Intelligibility_and_Ethnolinguistic_Distinctions.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210919021444/https://raw.githubusercontent.com/KIRINPUTRA/reclassifying-ISO-639-3-nan/main/Reclassifying_ISO_639-3_%5Bnan%5D__An_Empirical_Approach_to_Mutual_Intelligibility_and_Ethnolinguistic_Distinctions.pdf|access-date=2023-12-24|archive-date=2021-09-19 }}</ref> == Classification == Taiwanese Hokkien is a type of Hokkien, which is a Southern Min language. Like many Min varieties, it has different types of words for formal and informal use. The formal word