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  2. Languages of Taiwan - Wikipedia

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    Townships/cities and districts in Taiwan where Hakka is a statutory regional language according to the Hakka Basic Act. Hakka (客家語; Hak-kâ-ngî) is mainly spoken in Taiwan by people who have Hakka ancestry. These people are concentrated in several places throughout Taiwan. The majority of Hakka Taiwanese reside in Taoyuan, Hsinchu and ...

  3. Austronesian peoples - Wikipedia

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    The Austronesian peoples, sometimes referred to as Austronesian-speaking peoples, [44] are large group of peoples who have settled in Taiwan, maritime Southeast Asia, parts of mainland Southeast Asia, Micronesia, coastal New Guinea, Island Melanesia, Polynesia, and Madagascar that speak Austronesian languages.

  4. List of minor planets - Wikipedia

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    The list of minor planets consists of more than 700 partial lists, each containing 1000 minor planets grouped into 10 tables. The data is sourced from the Minor Planet Center (MPC) and expanded with data from the JPL SBDB (mean-diameter), Johnston's archive (sub-classification) and others (see detailed field descriptions below).

  5. Taiwan - Wikipedia

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    Taiwan, [II] [i] officially the Republic of China (ROC), [I] is a country [26] in East Asia. [l] The main island of Taiwan, also known as Formosa, lies between the East and South China Sea in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the northeast, and the Philippines to the south.

  6. Taiwanese Mandarin - Wikipedia

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    Taiwanese Mandarin, frequently referred to as Guoyu (Chinese: 國語; pinyin: Guóyǔ; lit. 'national language') or Huayu (華語; Huáyǔ; 'Chinese language'; not to be confused with 漢語), is the variety of Mandarin Chinese spoken in Taiwan.

  7. Formosan languages - Wikipedia

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    In 2005, in order to help with the preservation of the languages of the indigenous people of Taiwan, the council established a Romanized writing system for all of Taiwan's aboriginal languages. The council has also helped with classes and language certification programs for members of the indigenous community and the non-Formosan Taiwanese to ...

  8. Meanings of minor-planet names: 10001–11000 - Wikipedia

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    Named minor planet Provisional This minor planet was named for... Ref · Catalog 10101 Fourier: 1992 BM 2: Joseph Fourier (1768–1830), a French mathematician who exerted a strong influence on mathematical physics through his Théorie analytique de la chaleur (1822), wherein he showed that the conduction of heat in solid bodies may be analyzed in terms of infinite mathematical series, the so ...

  9. Meanings of minor-planet names - Wikipedia

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    Following a proposal of the discovering astronomer, new minor planet names are approved and published by IAU's WGSBN several times a year. [1] The WGSBN applies a set of rules for naming minor planets. [3] These range from syntax restrictions to non-offensive meanings. Over the years the rules have changed several times.