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The languages of [[Taiwan]] consist of several varieties of languages under the families of [[Austronesian languages]] and [[Sino-Tibetan languages]]. The [[Formosan languages]], a branch of Austronesian languages, have been spoken by the [[Taiwanese indigenous peoples]] for thousands of years. Owing to the wide internal variety of the Formosan languages, research on [[historical linguistics]] recognizes Taiwan as the [[Urheimat]] (homeland) of the whole Austronesian languages family. In the last 400 years, several waves of [[Chinese emigration|Han emigration]]s brought several different [[Sinitic languages]] into Taiwan. These languages include [[Taiwanese Hokkien]], [[Taiwanese Hakka|Hakka]], and [[Taiwanese Mandarin|Mandarin]], which have become the major languages spoken in
Formosan languages were the dominant language of [[Prehistory of Taiwan|prehistorical Taiwan]]. Taiwan's long colonial and immigration [[History of Taiwan|history]] brought in several languages such as [[Dutch language|Dutch]], [[Spanish language|Spanish]], [[Hokkien]], [[Hakka Chinese|Hakka]], [[Japanese language|Japanese]], and [[Mandarin Chinese|Mandarin]]. Due to its colonial history, Japanese influences the language in Taiwan, for example, as many loanwords in several languages in Taiwan are derived from Japanese.
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