Because it's fairly marginalized, as far as a language that's spoken by like 70% of the population can be marginalized. Right now the official language of the government, business, and school is Mandarin Chinese, and for the fifty years before the ROC took over the island it was Japanese. After the first few years of primary school most kids here speak Mandarin as their primary language anyway, so like, nobody has really bothered to come up with a standard writing system? A lot of native Taiwanese people are sort of embarrassed by their lack of Taiwanese skills anyway, which you can also sort of see in the video.
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Date: 2010-10-15 08:09 pm (UTC)Because it's fairly marginalized, as far as a language that's spoken by like 70% of the population can be marginalized. Right now the official language of the government, business, and school is Mandarin Chinese, and for the fifty years before the ROC took over the island it was Japanese. After the first few years of primary school most kids here speak Mandarin as their primary language anyway, so like, nobody has really bothered to come up with a standard writing system? A lot of native Taiwanese people are sort of embarrassed by their lack of Taiwanese skills anyway, which you can also sort of see in the video.
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