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
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
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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.
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