Arikun is a group of Austronesian indigenous Formosan people living from the western plain to central basin of Taiwan, especially. They have lived through the Dutch colonization of Taiwan, as well as
Portrait of the Plains Indigenous People in Pipa, Puli, possibly an Arukun.
Taiwanese Mandarin, natively referred to as Guoyu or Huayu, is the variety of Standard Mandarin spoken in Taiwan. A large majority of the Taiwanese population is fluent in Mandarin, though many can al
Road sign in Nanzih District, Kaohsiung, showing Tongyong pinyin without tone marks (Jyunsiao in Hanyu pinyin is Junxiao)
The protruding green sign, for a bento shop in Taipei, uses a stylistic Japanese の. The sign behind it advertises bento as 便當, another term unique to Taiwanese Mandarin.