Soothren Min
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Southern Min | |
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Min Nan | |
閩南語 / 闽南语 [Bân-lâm-gú] error: {{lang}}: unrecognised leid tag: zh-min-nan (help) | |
![]() Koa-a beuks, Min Nan written in Cheenese characters | |
Native tae | Cheenae, Taiwan, Malaysie, Indonesie, Singapore, Thailand, Philippines, Vietnam, Japan an ither auries o Soothren Min an Hoklo settlement |
Region | Southern Fujian province; the Chaozhou-Shantou (Chaoshan) aurie an Leizhou Peninsula in Guangdong province; extreme sooth o Zhejiang province; much o Hainan province(if Hainanese or Qiong Wen is includit); an maist o Taiwan. |
Native speakers | 47 million (2007)[1] |
Sino-Tibetan
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Dialects | |
Offeecial status | |
Offeecial leid in | None (Legislative bills hae been proposed for Taiwanese Hokkien tae be ane o the 'naitional leids' in Taiwan); ane o the statutory leids for public transport annooncements in Taiwan [1] |
Regulatit bi | None (The Republic o Cheenae Meenistry o Eddication an some NGOs are influential in Taiwan) |
Leid codes | |
ISO 639-3 | nan |
Glottolog | minn1241 [2] |
![]() Distribution o Soothren Min. | |
Soothren Min, or Min Nan (simplifeed Cheenese: 闽南语; traditeeonal Cheenese: 閩南語; pinyin: Mǐnnán Yǔ; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Bân-lâm-gí/Bân-lâm-gú; leeterally: "Soothren Fujian leid"), is a branch o Min Cheenese spoken in certain pairts o Cheenae includin soothren Fujian, eastren Guangdong, Hainan, an soothren Zhejiang, an in Taiwan.
References[eedit | eedit soorce]
- ↑ Mikael Parkvall, "Världens 100 största språk 2007" (The World's 100 Largest Languages in 2007), in Nationalencyklopedin
- ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Min Nan Chinese". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.