Han Taiwanese or Taiwanese Han () are a Taiwanese ethnic group, most of whom are of full or partial Han Chinese descent. According to the Executive Yuan Taiwan, they comprise 95 to 97 percent of the Taiwanese population, which also includes Austronesians and other non-Han people. Major waves of Han immigration occurred since the 17th century to the end of Chinese Civil War in 1949, with the exception of the Japanese colonial period (1895-1945). Han Taiwanese mainly speak three languages of Chinese: Mandarin, Hokkien and Hakka. Definition There is no simple uniform definition of Han Taiwanese,Hsieh, Shih-Chung. 1998. Three Definition of Hanren：Images of the Majority People in Taiwan. which are estimated to comprise 95 to 98 percent of the Taiwanese population. To determine if a Taiwanese is Han, common criteria include immigration background (from continental East Asia), using a Han language as the mother tongue, and observance of traditional Han festivals. Sometimes a negative definition is employed, where Han people are those who are not certain non-Han people. Taiwanese Han people can be classified according to the times of migration or places of origin. They include the Taiwanese Minnan and Hakka people that arrived in Taiwan before World War II and the post-World War II Han immigrants. From the view that Taiwan is one of the former, along with the Austronesians, are sometimes called benshengren (), while the latter, along with the contemporaneous non-Han immigrants, are called waishengren (). These two terms and distinctions are now less important due to intermarriages between different sub-populations of Taiwan and the rise of the Taiwanese identity. In addition, there are Han Taiwanese that do not fall into the above categories, including the Puxian-speaking Han people in Wuqiu Township, Kinmen County, the Mindong-speaking in Matzu, and various recent Han immigrants from mainland China (forming part of the so-called xīn zhùmín "New Immigrants" ().
Han Taiwanese or Taiwanese Han () are a Taiwanese ethnic group, most of whom are of full or partial Han people descent. According to the Executive Yuan Taiwan, they comprise 95 to 97 percent of the Taiwanese population, which also includes Austronesians and other non-Han people. Major waves of Han immigration occurred since the 17th century to the end of Chinese Civil War in 1949, with the exception of the Japanese colonial period (1895-1945). Han Taiwanese mainly speak three languages of Chinese: Mandarin, Hokkien and Hakka. Definition There is no simple uniform definition of Han Taiwanese,Hsieh, Shih-Chung. 1998. Three Definition of Hanren：Images of the Majority People in Taiwan. which are estimated to comprise 95 to 98 percent of the Taiwanese population. To determine if a Taiwanese is Han, common criteria include immigration background (from continental East Asia), using a Han language as the mother tongue, and observance of traditional Han festivals. Sometimes a negative definition is employed, where Han people are those who are not certain non-Han people. Taiwanese Han people can be classified according to the times of migration or places of origin. They include Minnan people and Hakka people people that arrived in Taiwan before World War II and the post-World War II Han immigrants. From the view that Taiwan is one of the former, along with the Austronesians, are sometimes called benshengren (), while the latter, along with the contemporaneous non-Han immigrants, are called waishengren (). These two terms and distinctions are now less important due to intermarriages between different sub-populations of Taiwan and the rise of the Taiwanese identity. In addition, there are Han Taiwanese that do not fall into the above categories, including the Puxian-speaking Han people in Wuqiu Township, Kinmen County, the Mindong-speaking in Matzu, and various recent Han immigrants from mainland China (forming part of the so-called xīn zhùmín "New Immigrants" ().
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the Taiwanese Minnan and Hakka
Minnan people and Hakka people