(SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) EMILY FENG, BYLINE: Taiwanese opera, or koa-a-hi in Taiwanese Hokkien, first started here nearly two centuries ago in northern Taiwan. (SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) UNIDENTIFIED SINGER ...

while the director barks out a rapid patter of Hokkien. Although the backstage is a flurry of the activity, the audience section in front of the stage is entirely empty. This is a special ...

A version of this story ran in the November / December 2024 issue. Dai wan wei. The sounds of the Taiwanese Hokkien language don’t resemble Mandarin Chinese, which drifts from the throat in soft ...

Mandarin is the main spoken language. Some speak Taiwanese Hokkien and Hakka, and there are indigenous languages or Formosan languages, which are part of the Austronesian language family.

And on the far side of the road, elderly residents sit on plastic chairs in the shade chatting in Taiwanese, a dialect derived from the original Hokkien spoken by settlers who arrived from Fujian ...

SEKINCHAN: He may not be as famous as “Gangnam Style” Psy but for the Hokkien folk here, Taiwanese pop icon Weng Liyou may as well be. The appearance of the Hokkien star, whose songs are a ...

It differs somewhat from the Hokkien spoken in southern states such as Johor, or even the Taiwanese Hokkien. So two artists decided to produce a new mural in the heritage enclave on Friday ...