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Name:
Chinese, Min Nan
Type:
Language
Alternate Names:
Min Nan Chinese; Min Dialect Family; Min Nan; Minnan; Southern Min; Min; Chinese,MinNan
Spoken in:
USA, Malaysia, China, Singapore, Philippines, Taiwan, Brunei, Thailand, Indonesia
Number of speakers:
25,700,000 in China (1984). 2.5% of the population, including 1,000,000 Xiamen dialect (1988 census), 6,000,000 Quanzhou dialect (Quanzhoushi Fangyan Zhi). Population total all countries: 47,265,100
(Ethnologue)
Code:
nan
Code Standard:
ISO 639-3
Documentation:
SIL
Families:
Sino-Tibetan
Parent Subgroup:
Min; Hokkien; Min Section (minn)
Child Dialect Groups:
Xiamen; Amoy (nan-xia)
Hainanese; Hainan; Hainan Island; Qiongwen (nan-han)
Chao-Shan; Choushan; Chaozhou; Ch'ao Shan; Chaoshan (nan-cha)
Child Dialects:
Hainan; Hainanese; Qiongwen Hua; Wenchang; Qiongwen (nan-hai)
Fukienese (nan-fuk)
Chaozhou; Chaochow; Tiuchiu; Teochow; Techu; Chaoshan (nan-chz)
Hokkien; Fukienese; Fujian; Amoy; Xiamen; Quanzhang (nan-hok)
Teochew; Chaochow; Chaozhou; Taechew; Chaoshan (nan-teo)
Zhenan Min; Southern Chekiang (nan-zhe)
Longdu (nan-lon)
Leizhou; Lei Hua; Li Hua (nan-lei)
Chaochow; Tiu Chiu; Ch'aochou (nan-cho)
Datian (nan-dat)
Map of Chinese, Min Nan
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