Min Nan

Min Nan, Minnan, or Min-nan (; POJ: B?n-l?m-g?; "Southern Min" or "Southern Fujian" language) or Hokkien is the Chinese language/dialect spoken in southern Fujian province, China and neighboring areas, and by descendants of emigrants from these areas in diaspora. Taiwanese is the Min Nan variant spoken on Taiwan. Teochew or Teochiu is a prominent variant, especially among ethnic Chinese in Southeast Asia, originating in the Chaoshan region of Guangdong province.

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Southern Min and its counterpart Northern Min (Min Bei) can be grouped together as the Min language group. Both are often classified under the Chinese language group, itself part of the Sino-Tibetan language family. However, Min Nan is mutually intelligible with neither Northern Min nor Mandarin, the official Chinese language, spoken (at least as a second language) by the majority of those in mainland China and Taiwan, as well as by large numbers of overseas Chinese throughout the world.

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Min Nan is spoken in the southern part of the southeastern Chinese province of Fujian by the Hoklo as well as their descendants who migrated from this province to Taiwan, Guangdong (around Chaozhou-Swatou, and Leizhou peninsula), Hainan, two counties in southern Zhejiang and Zhoushan archipelago offshore Ningbo. There are many Min Nan speakers also among overseas Chinese in Southeast Asia. In Taiwan, it also has the native name of T?i-o?n-oē or Hō-l?-oē. In the Philippines, it has the name L?n-l?ng-oē ("our people?s language") among the Chinese Filipinos, many of whom are descendants of Fujian people or Hoklo.

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As with all other varieties of Chinese, there is plenty of dispute as to whether Min Nan is a language or a dialect. Please see here for the issues surrounding this dispute.

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