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Southern Min, or Min Nan, are a family of Chinese languages or varieties spoken in Taiwan and in parts of China such as southern
Fujian, eastern Guangdong, Hainan, and southern Zhejiang. The languages are also spoken by descendants of emigrants from these
areas in diaspora. In common parlance, Southern Min usually refers to Hokkien, in particular the Amoy and Taiwanese. Amoy
and Taiwanese are both combinations of Quanzhou and Zhangzhou speech. The Southern Min family also includes Teochew. Teochew
has limited mutual intelligibility with the Amoy. Hainanese and Puxian Min both originated from Minnan. However, both these
dialects are generally not considered to be mutually intelligible with any other Southern Min variants phonologically although
the grammar and most vocabulary is very similar as they come from the same roots as Minnan. Southern Min forms part of the
Min language group, alongside several other divisions. The Min languages/dialects are part of the Chinese language group,
itself a member of the Sino-Tibetan language family. Southern Min is not mutually intelligible with Eastern Min, Cantonese,
or Mandarin. As with other varieties of Chinese, there is a political dispute as to whether the Southern Min language should
be called a language or a dialect. |
Names (more)[am] ደቡብ ሚንኛ[ar] مين نان [br] Mineg ar su [ca] Min Nan [da] Minnan [de] Min Nan [en] Chinese, Min Nan [eo] Minnana lingvo [fr] Minnan [gv] Minish Yiass [id] Bahasa Hokkien [it] Lingua min nan [ja] ビン南語 [ko] 민난어 [ms] Bahasa Hokkien [nl] Minnanyu [no] Minnan [pl] Język minnański [pt] Min Nan [ru] Южноминьский язык [es] Chino min nan [sv] Minnan [ta] மின்னான் மொழி [th] ภาษาหมิ่นใต้ [tr] Min-Nan [uk] Південноміньська мова [vi] Tiếng Mân Nam [za] Vah Hozloz [zh] 闽南语 |
Language type : Living
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ISO 639 CodesISO 639-3 : nanLinked Data URIshttp://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/nanhttp://dbpedia.org/resource/ISO_639:nan More URIs at sameas.org SourcesAuthority documentation for ISO 639 identifier: nanFreebase ISO 639-3 : nan GeoNames.org Country Information Publications Office of the European Union Metadata Registry : Countries and Languages |