As the government has vigorously pursued its National Language policy over the last forty years, people of all ethnic groups in Taiwan, whether of Fukienese or Hakka descent or from the nine aboriginal tribes, have lost their native languages to a greater or lesser degree.
在台灣，不管是閩南人、客家人，或是山地九族，四十年來，由於政府大力執行國語政策，各族語言都有或多或少的流失。