Taiwanese Mandarin | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 04/11/2018

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Taiwanese Mandarin

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Mandarin Chinese (Taiwan) (Chinese: 中華民國國語; pinyin: Zhōnghuámínguóguóyǔ; literally: "national language of Republic of China") is a dialect of Mandarin Chinese and the de facto official language of Taiwan. It is based on the phonology of the Beijing dialect together with the grammar of vernacular Chinese.
Taiwanese Mandarin is almost identical to the official language of mainland China, called Standard Chinese(Pǔtōnghuà), with the exception of their writing systems. However, Mandarin as spoken informally in Taiwan has some notable differences in vocabulary, grammar and pronunciation with Standard Mandarin, differences which have arisen mainly under influence from Taiwanese Hokkien (the native variety of about 70% of the population of Taiwan), other mother tongues of Taiwan like Taiwanese Hakka (spoken natively by about 15% of Taiwanese) and Formosan languages, additionally English, and Japanese from the prior Japanese period.