*yawns*
You wrote, "The language the Tawainese speak is their language. They say it's Tawainese because they live in Taiwan (Taiwanese) and separate themselves from China (Chinese). They totally disagree to use the term Chinese to describe them and their language. Former Minneapolis Star Tribune reporter Wendy Tai, a Taiwan-born Asian, told me that in 1996."
It's obvious you don't know what you are talking about. Just answer one simple question...
1. What do the locals in Taiwan call the standard language that is spoken and written everywhere (TV, restaurants, schools, etc)? Chinese, Taiwanese, or "Taiwanese Mandarin."
This Wendy Tai chick did not tell you the entire story about the language debate in Taiwan in the 1990's. Clearly, she was on the side of standardizing Taiwanese instead of Mandarin. Or, she simply spoke Taiwanese more commonly than Mandarin. You were simply too uninformed to understand what she was referencing. You made a huge assumption based off one brief comment. And as it is now, you are still too uninformed to understand it.
Like someone else said before, the other spoken languages do not matter because we aren't even talking about those. I don't even know why this is such a big deal. You can just Google this information. Or better yet, just go to Taiwan and see what they call the language.
Dude, it's Taiwanese Mandarin they speak there if you are talking about the official language that is the langua franca among the various groups there.
1996 or now doesn't matter. A Hmong then is a Hmong now.