Pu-Xian Min
Sign in to saveAlso known as Putian-Xianyou Min, Puxian Min, Pu-Xian Chinese, Pô-sing-gṳ̂, Hing-hua̍-gṳ̂, Pô-sing language, Hing-hua̍ language, Pu-Xian language
language
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Vinony's link graph records 1,458 inbound references to Pu-Xian Min, and connects out to simplified Chinese characters, traditional Chinese characters and logogram.
Vinony files it under Language articles citing Ethnologue 26, Language articles with Linguasphere code and Languages of China.
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Key facts
- Native to
- China , Malaysia , Singapore , Indonesia , Taiwan ( Wuqiu )
- Region
- Fujian ( Putian , parts of Fuzhou and Quanzhou )
- Ethnicity
- Putianese (Han Chinese)
- Native speakers
- 3.15 million (2022)
- Language family
- Sino-Tibetan Sinitic Chinese Min Coastal Min Pu–Xian Min
- Early forms
- Proto-Sino-Tibetan Old Chinese Proto-Min
- Dialects
- Putian Xianyou
- Writing system
- Simplified Han characters , Traditional Han characters , Hinghwa Romanized (Hing-hua̍ Báⁿ-uā-ci̍)
- Iso 639 3
- cpx
- Glottolog
- puxi1243
- Linguasphere
- 79-AAA-id
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- modern language
- Has part
- Xianyou dialect
- Country
- Taiwan
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- writing system
- traditional Chinese characters
- number of speakers, writers, or signers
- 2500000
- topic's main category
- Category:Pu-Xian Min
- indigenous to
- Fujian
- Wikimedia Incubator URL
- incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/cpx
- Wikimedia language code
- cpx
- native label
- 莆仙语
- Commons category
- Puxian Min
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Encyclopedic overview
Bible in Hinghwa (Xinghua) Romanised (Genesis), published by the British and Foreign Bible Society.
Pu–Xian Min (Hinghwa Romanized: Pó-sing-gṳ̂; traditional Chinese: 莆仙話; simplified Chinese: 莆仙话; pinyin: Púxiānhuà), also known as Putian–Xianyou Min, Puxian Min, Pu–Xian Chinese, Xinghua, Henghua, Hinghua or Hinghwa (Hing-hua̍-gṳ̂; traditional Chinese: 興化語; simplified Chinese: 兴化语; pinyin: Xīnghuàyǔ), is a Chinese language that forms a branch of Min Chinese. Pu-Xian is a transitional variety of Coastal Min which shares characteristics with both Eastern Min and Southern Min, although it is closer to the latter.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Pu-Xian Min” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.