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A collection of handy resources for students of Taiwanese.
Glossaries
Readings
Introduction to Carstairs Douglas' 1873 Amoy-English Dictionary
From Sino-Platonic Papers
Linguistic Nationalism: The Case of Southern Min, John DeBernardi (PDF)
The Outlook for Taiwanese Language Preservation, Deborah Beaser (PDF)
By Henning Klöter
The History of Peh-oe-ji (PDF)
By Wi-vun Taiffalo Chiung
Peh-oe-ji: Childish Writing? (PDF)
Language, Literacy, and Nationalism: A Comparative Study of Vietnam and Taiwan (PDF)
From the University of Southern California
A Typological Study of Causatives in Taiwan Southern Min (PDF)
Links
Useful information about the Taiwanese language and other Taiwan-related topics. These links are predominantly in English unless otherwise stated.
Taiwanese Schools
Maryknoll Language Service Center
With locations in both Tâi-pak and Tâi-tiong, these schools opened to cater to Catholic missionary students, but now accept non-missionary students too.
Taipei Language Institute
School with nine locations in Taiwan, China and the United States. Not all offer Taiwanese instruction, so check the website for details.
Washington DC Taiwanese School
Based at the TECRO Cultural Center in the US capital, the school offers weekend courses in Taiwanese for both children and adults.
Learning Taiwanese
Tâi-ôan Chè-chō
A new phrase every day, written in POJ. By Matthew O'Connor.
Intermediate Taiwanese Grammar
Also by Matthew O'Connor, this blog models sentence patterns in Taiwanese.
Hokkien (Minnan) language forum
Discussion, in English, of Southern Min dialects.
Dictionaries
Taiwanese-English Dictionary
A work in progress, currently with a small database (around 3000 entries).
Taiwanese-Mandarin Dictionary
Search by Mandarin, Taiwanese (in Characters) or POJ. Pretty extensive, with occasional definitions in English too.
Linguistics
Wikipedia's entry on Taiwanese
Includes a good deal of linguistic information and useful links.
Talking Taiwanese
A detailed and well-researched blog concerned (mostly) with the state of bilingual education in Taiwan.
Romanization
Pinyin Info
Excellent site focussing on the romanization of Mandarin, from time to time also with stories about Taiwanese in the 'News' section.
Taiwanese Romanization Association (Mandarin/POJ)
Non-profit society aimed at the promotion of romanization for Taiwanese and Hakka.
General Information About Taiwan
Forumosa
Taiwan's biggest English-language forum.
Taiwan Ho!
Another English forum site, with lots of extra content.
Go2Taiwan Tourism Blog
Blog articles about tourism-related topics in Taiwan.
Taiwanese Language Blogs
In Peh-oe-ji
In other Romanizations
Hydonsingore ee Hunhoarloo
General discussion of Taiwan-related issues, written in MLT
