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rayshih715 rayshih715 June 29, 2017 June 29, 2017 at 7:56:46 AM UTC link Permalink

I am writing to enquire whether it is possible to add Taiwanese Mandarin to the language list, not to emphesize the status between China and Taiwan we are confronting now but the colloqation in informal speech has significant discrepencies, not to mention formal language, even writing systems may vary between dialects and slangs. I would be very appreciated for this.

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Wezel Wezel June 29, 2017, edited June 29, 2017 June 29, 2017 at 11:58:26 AM UTC, edited June 29, 2017 at 11:59:21 AM UTC link Permalink

Unfortunately, only languages that have their own ISO 639-3 codes (Taiwanese Mandarin doesn’t) can be added to Tatoeba.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_639-3

cueyayotl cueyayotl July 1, 2017 July 1, 2017 at 7:23:28 PM UTC link Permalink

Though we cannot add Taiwan Mandarin as a separate language, we have a tag number 2636: "Taiwan Mandarin". If you contribute a sentence (or see another sentence on this site) in Taiwan Mandarin, you can write "Taiwan Mandarin" as a comment for the sentence and somebody can come and tag that sentence.