Radio Taiwan International
Date: 2018-05-07

The education committee in Taiwan’s legislature has passed an initial draft of the National Language Development Act. The wording of the act says its purpose is to “promote the transmission, revival and development of the nation’s languages, in the spirit of respecting the country’s multiculturalism.”

While Mandarin Chinese is the main language spoken in Taiwan, many people speak dialects like Minnan or Taiwanese dialect, and the Hakka language. There are also at least 16 Austronesian languages spoken by Taiwan’s minority indigenous peoples.
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