Taiwanese Hokkien
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Taiwanese Hokkien (Taioan'oe), a variety of Hokkien
- During the Japanese era, Taiwan began to hold Amoy Hokkien as its standard pronunciation. The Japanese called this mixture Taiwanese (Jidguo: 臺灣語 Taiwango)
- Prior to this development, Hokkien was referred to as Hoklo or simply Chinese, as in James W. Davidson's 1903 The Island of Formosa and the works of William Campbell