(key): /pʰu³³⁻²¹ (tʰ-)luŋ⁵⁵⁻⁵³ (Ø-)ŋuɑ²⁴²/ Southern Min (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, General Taiwanese) Pe̍h-ōe-jī: phó͘-thong-ōe Tâi ...

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 ...

Opera is particularly loved in Taiwan, where it's performed in the Hokkien, one of the Island's main languages and, as NPR's Emily Feng reports, also has some casting curveballs. (SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) ...

Opera is particularly loved in Taiwan, where it's performed in the Hokkien, one of the Island's main languages and, as NPR's Emily Feng reports, also has some casting curveballs. (SOUNDBITE OF ...

Whereas Yáng utilized the script shared by Japanese, Chinese, and Taiwanese Hokkien, King has painstakingly differentiated between the different romanizations of those languages, largely preserving ...