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- Linguistic
- Cultural
- Technical
- Archive / Documentation
Linguistic
| Official Language de facto / | Taiwanese Mandarin |
| Competent Authority | Ministry of Education 教育部終身教育司第四科（閱讀及語文教育科） |
| Official Language | N/A |
| National Language list incomplete | Taiwanese Mandarin (regulated by Ministry of Education) Taiwanese Hokkien (regulated by Ministry of Education) Taiwanese Hakka (regulated by Hakka Affairs Council) Formosan languages (regulated by Council of Indigenous Peoples) Taiwan sign language (Ministry of Culture) |
| Dictionary | 《重編國語辭典修訂本》 (official dictionary by the competent authority) 萌典 樂詞網 (official “termbase” by the competent authority) |
| Spelling or Transcription or Transliteration System | Bopomofo（注音） See also 國語注音符號手冊 missing 笅 |
| Punctuation | 《重訂標點符號手冊》修訂版 |
| Inflection incl. conjugation and declension | N/A note https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflection The inflection of verbs is called conjugation, and one can refer to the inflection of nouns, adjectives, adverbs, pronouns, determiners, participles, prepositions and postpositions, numerals, articles, etc., as declension. |
| Sentence Structure (Word Order) Not considering irregular situations | SVO https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subject%E2%80%93verb%E2%80%93object_word_order Count (+ Classifier) + Adjective + Noun (compared to tr-TR: Adjective + Count + Noun) |
| Gendered Language | No |
| Tonal Language | Yes |
| Capitalization | N/A |
| Writing Direction | Both horizontal and vertical Modern: Left-to-right, top-to-bottom Traditionally: Top-to bottom, right-to-left (still seen in some printed matter nowadays) https://www.omniglot.com/writing/direction.htm#ltrvbt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Writing_system#Directionality https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Writing_system#/media/File:Writing_directions_of_the_world.svg |
Cultural
| Number Format (decimal separator and digit grouping) | 1,000.00 |
| Numerals | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_numerals#:~:text=There%20are%20characters%20representing%20the,(traditional%20Chinese%3A%20%E5%B0%8F%E5%AF%AB%3B%20simplified https://www.ifreesite.com/typing/suzhou-numeral.htm |
| Date and Time Format | yyyy年m月d日hr時mi分se秒 yyyy/mm/dd hr:mi:se |
| Clock | 24-hour clock 12-hour clock |
| Daylight Saving Time | No |
| Calendar | Republic of China calendar (conversion: Gregorian calendar year – 1911) Gregorian calendar Chinese calendar, a lunisolar calendar |
| Business Days | Five-day workweek https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workweek_and_weekend Mon – Fri start of the week https://www.taiwan.net.tw/m1.aspx?sNo=0027035 |
| Zodiac | Chinese zodiac note variants and comparisons Rat, Ox, Tiger, Rabbit, Dragon, Snake, Horse, Goat, Monkey, Rooster, Dog, Pig |
| Solar Term | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_term https://www.ifreesite.com/24-solar-terms/ Holidays dates floating or fixed? |
| Currency | New Taiwan dollar TWD NTD $ 或 NT$ |
| Time Zone | UTC+8 |
| Telephone numbers | +886 format: +886 912345678 regex? |
| Numbers to call | https://www.taiwan.net.tw/m1.aspx?sNo=0027035 110 |
| postal code format | https://www.post.gov.tw/post/internet/U_english2/index.jsp?ID=35140301 |
| System of measurement | International System of Units Taiwanese units of measurement |
| Voltage and current standards | 110V或220V，頻率為60Hz 110 V 60 Hz Type A, B https://www.ifreesite.com/voltage/ adapter https://www.taiwan.net.tw/m1.aspx?sNo=0027035 |
| Vehicle Driving Side | Right (right-hand traffic) |
| Government | Unitary semi-presidential republic |
| Political party of significance | KMT DPP TPP |
| Religion | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwan#:~:text=Religion%20(2020),1.3%25%20other |
| Ethnic groups | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwan#:~:text=Ethnic%C2%A0groups%20(2016,0.7%E2%80%932.7%25%20other |
| Marriage / Civil union | Monogamy |
| Same-sex marriage | legalized in 2019 https://zh.wikipedia.org/zh-tw/%E8%87%BA%E7%81%A3%E5%90%8C%E6%80%A7%E5%A9%9A%E5%A7%BB |
| Gesture | |
| Firearm/Abortion | to drop or to keep? |
| Color | |
| Personal name and title conventions | Last name + first name Last name + first name + title Last name + title Fist name + title (informal; intimately speaking) |
Technical
| ccTLD | .tw |
| Regex | (What in Cultural + Erin’s share) |
| QA Checker | (Highlight all non-CJK unicode characters zh-TW characters/words QA checker zh-TW punctuation QA checker) Link to download page / GitHub |
| “Word” count | (Definition of words/characters is quite different from phonograms) |
| Text sorting | …so messed up |
Archive / Documentation
| Style Guide | independently created, not to violate copyright |
| Case Study / termbase sharing | Cod 鱈魚之亂 |
| Notable Failure Epic product recall / banned service | Netflix’s 李屍朝鮮 Netflix’s maturity ratings |
| Language variant comparison list (here or Linguistic?) |