how many language is taiwanese?

Question

i mean like....chinese is mandrian and cantonese
japanese has like 3 kinds
so how many kinds does taiwanese have?

Answer 1

Chinese has a lot of dialects. About as many as China has provinces.

You seem to think that it only has two, Mandarin and Cantonese, but it has many. Taiwanese is one of these. The formal name for this dialect is Min Nan, or southern Min. Another name is Hokkien.

Hokkien is the name of Fujian/Fukien province, the one across from Taiwan, spelled the way you pronounce it in Hokkien. People in Taiwan and Fujian both speak this dialect. Because Hokkien is not an official language of any government, it has no standardization, and regional variations are many. Just on the island of Taiwan and Penghu there are at least five variants.

People in Taiwan speak Hokkien because their ancestors came over from Fukien/Fujian province. Overseas communities in southeast Asia often speak Hokkien for the same reason.

Answer 2

First of all, Chinese does not only include Mandarin and Cantonese. It has numerous dialects, and Mandarin and Cantonese are only two of them. Taiwanese is a branch of the Min Nan dialect of Chinese, and in Taiwanese there are about 5 sub-dialects.