The Taiwanese indigenous languages or Formosan languages are the languages of the aboriginal tribes of Taiwan.Taiwanese aborigines currently comprise about 2.3% of the island's population. However, far fewer can still speak their ancestral language, after centuries of language shift.It is common for young and middle-aged Hakka and aboriginal people to speak Mandarin and …

The Chinese language is the group of languages used by Chinese people in China and elsewhere. It forms part of a language family called the Sino-Tibetan family of languages. Chinese includes many regional language varieties, the main ones being Mandarin, Wu, Yue and Min.