Taiwanese kana
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Taiwanese kana is a katakana-based writing system that was used to write Taiwanese Hokkien when the island of Taiwan was under Japanese rule. It functioned as a phonetic guide to Chinese characters, m
A page from the Japanese–Taiwanese Dictionary (日臺大辭典, Nittai daijiten) of 1907, by Ogawa Naoyoshi
Taiwanese Hokkien
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Taiwanese Hokkien, colloquially known as Taiwanese or Taigi, Taiwanese Taigi, Taiwanese Southern Min, Hoklo and Holo, is a variety of the Hokkien language spoken natively by more than 70 percent of th
Taiwanese kana
…Taiwanese kana (タイ𚿳ヲァヌ𚿳ギイ𚿰カア𚿰ビェン𚿳; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Tâi-oân-gí ká-bêng) is a katakana-based writing system that was used to write Taiwanese Hokkien (commonly called "Taiwanese") when the island of Taiwan was under Japanese rule. It functioned as a phonetic guide to Chinese characters, much like…
An issue of the Taiwan Church News, first published by Presbyterian missionaries in 1885. This was the first printed newspaper in Taiwan, and was written in Taiwanese, in the Latin orthography Pe̍h-ōe-jī.
Pe̍h-ōe-jī inscription at a church in Tâi-lâm commemorating Thomas Barclay.
A collection of translations of the Bible in Taiwanese. Top left, Today's Taiwanese version; top right, the Red-Cover Bible; bottom, Barclay's translation.