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Hokkien
Sign in to saveHokkien ( , ) is a variety of the Southern Min group of Chinese languages. Native to and originating from the Minnan region in the southeastern part of Fujian in southeastern China, it is also referred to as Quanzhang (), from the first characters of the urban centers of Quanzhou and Zhangzhou.
Key facts
- Language.name
- Hokkien
- Language.altname
- Min Nan, Quanzhang, Amoy
- Language.region
- China, Taiwan, and Southeast Asia
- Language.image
- 農場相褒歌.jpg
- Language.imagecaption
- books featuring Hokkien written in Chinese characters
- Language.ethnicity
- Hokkien / Hoklo people
- Language.speakers
- tens of millions ()
- Language.ref
- <ref name="Ethnologue23
- Language.familycolor
- Sino-Tibetan
- Language.fam2
- Sinitic
- Language.fam3
- Chinese
- Language.fam4
- Min
- Language.fam5
- Coastal Min
- Language.fam6
- Southern Min
- Language.dia1
- Amoy
- Language.dia2
- Quanzhou
- Language.dia3
- Zhangzhou
- Language.dia4
- Longyan
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Article
39 sectionsContents
- Names
- Geographic distribution
- Classification
- Southeast Asia
- History
- Southern Fujian
- Xiamen
- Early sources
- 19th century sources
- Phonology
- Initials
- Finals
- Dialectal sound shifts
- Tones
- Dialects
- Comparison
- Mutual intelligibility
- Grammar
- Pronouns
- Copula
- Negation
- Vocabulary
- Literary and colloquial readings
- Semantic differences between Hokkien and Mandarin
- Words from Min Yue
- Loanwords
- Comparison with Mandarin and Sino-Xenic pronunciations
- Culture
- Writing systems
- Chinese script
- Latin script
- Computing
- Political status
- Sample text
- See also
- Notes
- References
- Further reading
- External links
Hokkien ( , ) is a variety of the Southern Min group of Chinese languages. Native to and originating from the Minnan region in the southeastern part of Fujian in southeastern China, it is also referred to as Quanzhang (), from the first characters of the urban centers of Quanzhou and Zhangzhou.
Taiwanese Hokkien is one of the national languages in Taiwan. Hokkien is also widely spoken within the overseas Chinese diaspora in Singapore, Malaysia, the Philippines, Indonesia, Cambodia, Myanmar, Hong Kong, Thailand, Brunei, Vietnam, and elsewhere across the world. Mutual intelligibility between Hokkien dialects varies, but they are still held together by ethnolinguistic identity.