before the 60s-70s-ish? most people spoke taiwanese (taiyu/minnan) as a first language, but large parts of the population were speaking hakka, and indigenous nations spoke their own languages.
during the japanese occupation people had to learn japanese as a second language. then during the KMT occupation right after, they had to learn mandarin as a second language. people born after the 80s generally speak better mandarin than taiyu, with indigenous people generally not speaking taiyu at all. boomers speak taiyu better than mandarin (unless they’re “out-of-province” i.e KMTers that arrived during the civil war), and only really old people might speak japanese.
if you meet a not-ancient person that speaks japanese it’s because they’re a weeb, as weebism is huge in taiwan, second only to being a amerophile angmo-sai
before the 60s-70s-ish? most people spoke taiwanese (taiyu/minnan) as a first language, but large parts of the population were speaking hakka, and indigenous nations spoke their own languages.
during the japanese occupation people had to learn japanese as a second language. then during the KMT occupation right after, they had to learn mandarin as a second language. people born after the 80s generally speak better mandarin than taiyu, with indigenous people generally not speaking taiyu at all. boomers speak taiyu better than mandarin (unless they’re “out-of-province” i.e KMTers that arrived during the civil war), and only really old people might speak japanese.
if you meet a not-ancient person that speaks japanese it’s because they’re a weeb, as weebism is huge in taiwan, second only to being a amerophile angmo-sai