Taiwan Language Differences

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Name: Dimas Prasetyo
Class: IRE Diplomacy 1
ID: 016201400046

The Language Differences of Taiwan and Indonesia

Introduction
Language is a system of communication consisting of sounds, words, and grammar, or the system of communication used by people in a particular country or type of work. Several countries are having their own language, but it also has international language such as; Malay, Mandarin, Latin/Espana, and English to communicate well to others people from different regions. That would make easier to communicate of each other. For now, I will not talk about the international language, in this opportunity I just want to explain and analyze the language differences of Taiwan which is using Mandarin and Indonesia which is using Malay …show more content…

This means that each syllable can have a number of different meanings depending on the intonation with which it is pronounced. For example Mandarin has 4 tones, Cantonese has between 6 and 9, and Taiwanese has 7 tones.
• The major varieties of Chinese are not mutually intelligible, but most people in China and Taiwan who don 't speak Mandarin as their first language, can speak or at least understand it a bit. However in Hong Kong and Macau fewer people speak Mandarin, so they tend to use English to communicate with people from other parts of China or Taiwan.
• Each of the major varieties of Chinese has numerous dialects. For example, Mandarin can be divided into northern, southern and south-western dialects, which are more or less mutually …show more content…

It is the main language of government, the media and education in China and Taiwan, and one of the four official languages in Singapore.
Wú Wúyŭ
Wú is spoken in Zhejiang and Jiangsu provinces and in Shanghai and Hong Kong by about 90 million people. Major dialects of Wu include Shanghainese and Suzhou.
Yuè (Cantonese) gwóngdùngwá / yuhtyúh
Cantonese is spoken by about 70 million people in Guangdong and Guangxi provinces and Hainan island in China, and also in Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Malaysia and many other

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