Taiwanese Hokkien, a variety of the Min Nan language group, also called Holo
Kingone is able to speak English, Mandarin and Taiwanese Hokkien, and is currently completing a Graduate degree in Philosophy at Chinese Culture University, Taipei.
Apart from Yilan and Lugang, which still preserves the original Zhangzhou and Quanzhou accents respectively, every region of Taiwan speaks a variant of Hokkien based on a mixture of Quanzhou and Zhangzhou Hokkien.
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In Taiwan, however, the Tâi-lâm (Tainan, southern Taiwan) speech is the prestige variant, and the other major variants are the northern speech, the central speech (near Taichung and the port town of Lugang in Changhua County), and the northern (northeastern) coastal speech (dominant in Yilan).
Ts'ao has studied a number of languages in pursuit of his understanding of early Taiwanese history, meaning he can now make use of ten languages: Taiwanese, Japanese, English, German, Mandarin Chinese, French, Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese, and Latin.
Taiwanese Hokkien, a variety of Min Nan Chinese, which could be indicated more specifically by nan-TW.
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