Ethnicity, Language, & Religion of Taiwan
Ethnicity
Nearly everyone in Taiwan is wholly or primarily Han Chinese, although many refer to their ethnicity in numerous ways, including "Chinese" as well as "Taiwanese." No matter how an individual identifies, it says little about his or her ethnic makeup as many people in Taiwan are 100% Han Chinese, while many others have traces of the local, indigenous people or other Chinese ethnicities in them. Today there are few indigenous people left as they only make up about 2% of the population; these people's closest relatives are the Malays and Polynesians.
Language
Mandarin Chinese is the only official language in Taiwan, although the dialect spoken on the island isn't quite the same as the dialect of Mandarin spoken in mainland China. The most commonly spoken dialect of Mandarin is Taiwanese (also known as Min or Taiwanese Hokkien). Taiwanese Hokkien is very similar to the dialect spoken in the region of mainland China closest to Taiwan, but Taiwanese Hokkien is becoming more common due to their film and television industries. Nearly 70% of the people speak this dialect natively.