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October 2001. Current status. Active. Yahoo! Kimo ( Chinese: Yahoo!奇摩) is the Taiwanese version of Yahoo!, a web services provider based in the United States. In February 2001, Yahoo! Inc. acquired Kimo [ zh], a Taiwanese search engine, and in October 2001, Yahoo! Kimo was launched as the merger of Kimo with Yahoo! Taiwan [ zh].
Taiwanese Mandarin, frequently referred to as Guoyu ( Chinese: 國語; pinyin: Guóyǔ; lit. 'national language') or Huayu ( 華語; Huáyǔ; 'Chinese language'), is the variety of Mandarin Chinese spoken in Taiwan. A large majority of the Taiwanese population is fluent in Mandarin, though many also speak a variety of Min Chinese known as ...
These languages include Taiwanese Hokkien, Hakka, and Mandarin, which have become the major languages spoken in present-day Taiwan. Formosan languages were the dominant language of prehistorical Taiwan. Taiwan's long colonial and immigration history brought in several languages such as Dutch, Spanish, Hokkien, Hakka, Japanese, and Mandarin.
Yue (including the Cantonese and Taishanese variants) Min (including the Hokkien and Fuzhounese variants) Hakka (Kejia) Xiang (Hunanese) Gan (Jiangxinese) The revised classification of Li Rong, used in the Language Atlas of China (1987) added three further groups split from these: Mandarin → Jin. Wu → Huizhou. Yue → Pinghua.
Hakka. The Hakka people live mainly in Taiwan's northwest areas, such as Taoyuan City, Hsinchu County and Miaoli County. The Hakka language is one of the four languages (the other three being Mandarin Chinese, Taiwanese and English) heard in the public transportation announcement in Taipei. Bible translation into Hakka language started in 1984.
v. t. e. " Chinese Taipei " is the term used in various international organizations and tournaments for groups or delegations representing the Republic of China (ROC), a country commonly known as Taiwan . Due to the One-China principle stipulated by the People's Republic of China (PRC, China), Taiwan, being a non- UN member after its expulsion ...
The Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan ( Chinese: 臺灣 閩南語 常用詞 辭典; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Tâi-oân Bân-lâm-gí Siông-iōng-sû Sû-tián) is a dictionary of Taiwanese Hokkien (including Written Hokkien) commissioned by the Ministry of Education of Taiwan. [1] The dictionary uses the Taiwanese Romanization System (based on ...
The Central News Agency (CNA) is Taiwan's semi-official wire service.. In addition to its Chinese language edition, it also has English and Japanese editions. It has a 300-strong employee base, and overseas branches in some 30 countries.