閩南話文學亦都係喺通俗小說呢個傳統下開始發展嘅。從現存最早嘅閩南話書面語文獻資料——明嘉靖重刊嘅《荔鏡記》戲文（嘉靖四十五年，1566年出版）計起， 閩南話文字化歷史應該至少有430年以上嘅歷史喇。以下就鶴佬（河洛）話同閩南話嘅文字化歷史，依年代大致分為「傳統民間口語文學時期」同「現代臺語書面化運動時期」兩大階段。
Hokkien literature also began to develop under the tradition of popular fiction. Counting from the earliest surviving written language documents in Hokkien, the drama of Lijing Ji (published in 1566 in the 45th year of Jiajing) republished by Jiajing in the Ming Dynasty, the history of Hokkien writing should be at least 430 years old. The following is a brief history of the writing of Helao (Heluo) and Hokkien dialect, which can be roughly divided into two stages: the "period of traditional folk oral literature" and the "period of the modern Taiwanese written movement".