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Primarily English sites concerning the Taiwanese language and related Southern Min dialects known variously as Amoy, Hokkien, Hoklo, Holo, etc. As with other natural language categories, topics include but are not limited to grammar, phonology, lexicon, aspects of communications, and writing or romanization systems.

Subcategories

• Dictionaries

Resources in This Category

• Linguistic Nationalism: The Case of Southern Min

  http://www.sino-platonic.org/complete/spp025_southern_min_taiwanese.pdf
  Discusses the links between Taiwanese politics and the Taiwanese language.

• Modern Taiwanese Web of the Edutech Foundation

  http://www.edutech.org.tw/
  Promotional site for Taiwanese Modern Spelling System, a romanized writing system created in 1943. Features lessons, literary texts, language notes, and partial dictionaries.

• Peh-oe-ji: Childish Writing?

  http://www.de-han.org/taiwan/chuliau/pehoeji-v.pdf
  An examination of attitudes among native speakers towards romanized Taiwanese.

• Tailingua

  http://tailingua.com/
  An English introduction to the Taiwanese language, with resources and news.

• The Min Dialect of Chaozhou and Comparative Chinese Grammar

  http://www.hku.hk/linguist/staff/chaozhou.html
  A research project at Hong Kong University.

• The Outlook for Taiwanese Language Preservation

  http://www.sino-platonic.org/complete/spp172_taiwanese_language.pdf
  Paper examining the future of the Taiwanese language and its possible decline.

• Writing Taiwanese: The Development of Modern Written Taiwanese

  http://www.sino-platonic.org/complete/spp089_taiwanese.pdf
  1999 paper giving an overview of written systems for Taiwanese, followed by a closer examination which favours the Modern Literal Taiwanese (MLT) system.

• Xiamen Missionary Romanization System

  http://www.raccoonbend.com/languages/xiarom.html
  A concise description of the system (also known as Peh-oe-ji) and its relationship to the International Phonetic Alphabet.

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