@focus_taiwan_en
If "#Hokkien" is "commonly known as #Taiwanese," why don't you just call it that?
#福佬語
#Tâigí
#台語
#WordsDoMeanThings

@TimMaddog @focus_taiwan_en How do you differentiate between the various languages in Taiwan, Hokkien, Hakka, several indigenous dialects. They all have the same claims to being "Taiwanese" The indigenous dialects have the greatest claim to being the official "Taiwanese" Language as they were here first.

@TimMaddog @focus_taiwan_en I lived the first half of my life in the US. American English is different from British English is different from Austrailian English is different from Liberian English and so on. They all speak English in a percentage similar to Hokkien in Taiwan. What is so different about the Taiwanese dialect of Hokkien that it needs a different name? French Canadians speak a dialect of French that different from French in France.

@dlupham @focus_taiwan_en
Ever heard of "#Québecois"?
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/quebecois
What is different about #Taiwanese 🇳🇫 and #Hokkien 🇨🇳?
(Same link I sent earlier. Did you even check it out?)
https://discover.hubpages.com/education/The-Taiwanese-Language-Words-Borrowed-From-Japanese-And-Other-Languages

@TimMaddog @focus_taiwan_en Actually I did. All one really said was that Hokklo or Minan has roots and had evolved over time to be different in different areas. Same as English speaking counties. The other talked about the inheritance of other language's words over time. 50 Years of Japanese control will obviously lead to Japanese words being in common use. Same as French words in English as French was the Language of the rulers of England for several centuries.