Min Chinese

E123012

Chinese language variety group Sinitic language branch

Min Chinese is a major and diverse branch of the Sinitic language family, comprising several mutually unintelligible varieties spoken primarily in China’s southeastern coastal regions and among overseas Chinese communities.

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All labels observed (2)

Label	Occurrences
Min Chinese canonical	18
Min (Chinese language group)	1

Statements (51)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Chinese language variety group ⓘ Sinitic language branch ⓘ
hasCharacteristic	complex tone systems ⓘ conservative phonological features ⓘ high internal diversity ⓘ lexical archaisms ⓘ mutually unintelligible internal varieties ⓘ preservation of distinctions lost in Mandarin ⓘ
hasGlottocode	minn1241 ⓘ
hasISOCode	zh-min ⓘ
hasLexicalFeature	numerous regionally distinctive vocabulary items ⓘ
hasMajorVariety	Chaoshan Min ⓘ Fuzhou dialect ⓘ Hainanese ⓘ Hokkien ⓘ Leizhou Min ⓘ Min Bei ⓘ Min Dong ⓘ Taiwanese Hokkien ⓘ surface form: Min Nan Min Zhong ⓘ Pu-Xian Min ⓘ Qiong-Lei Min ⓘ Taiwanese Hokkien ⓘ Teochew ⓘ
hasPhonologicalFeature	preservation of entering tones ⓘ rich inventory of tones ⓘ
historicalDevelopment	diverged early from other Sinitic branches ⓘ
languageFamily	Sino-Tibetan languages ⓘ surface form: Sino-Tibetan
originatesFrom	southeastern China ⓘ
spokenIn	Fujian ⓘ surface form: Fujian Province Guangdong Province ⓘ Hainan ⓘ surface form: Hainan Province Indonesia ⓘ Jiangxi Province ⓘ Malaysia ⓘ Philippines ⓘ Singapore ⓘ Southeast Asia ⓘ Formosa ⓘ surface form: Taiwan Thailand ⓘ Viet Nam ⓘ surface form: Vietnam Zhejiang Province ⓘ overseas Chinese communities ⓘ
subclassOf	Chinese language ⓘ Chinese language ⓘ surface form: Sinitic languages Sino-Tibetan languages ⓘ
usedBy	Han Chinese ⓘ
usedIn	Chinese diaspora communities in Southeast Asia ⓘ local media in Fujian ⓘ local media in Taiwan ⓘ
writingSystem	Chinese characters ⓘ

Referenced by (19)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

eastern China → language → Min Chinese ⓘ

subject surface form: Eastern China

southern China → hasLanguageGroup → Min Chinese ⓘ

subject surface form: Southern China

Teochew → subgroupOf → Min Chinese ⓘ

Chinese language → hasPart → Min Chinese ⓘ

Northern Mandarin → contrastedWith → Min Chinese ⓘ

Min River (Fujian) → nameSharesRootWith → Min Chinese ⓘ

Min → isAmbiguousWith → Min Chinese ⓘ

this entity surface form: Min (Chinese language group)

Middle Chinese → ancestorOf → Min Chinese ⓘ

Yue Chinese → isNotMutuallyIntelligibleWith → Min Chinese ⓘ

Southern Min → subclassOf → Min Chinese ⓘ

Southern Min → languageBranch → Min Chinese ⓘ

Quanzhou dialect → languageGroup → Min Chinese ⓘ

Hainanese language → subclassOf → Min Chinese ⓘ

Minnan language → subclassOf → Min Chinese ⓘ

Minnan language → languageGroup → Min Chinese ⓘ

Philippine Hokkien → hasLanguageGroup → Min Chinese ⓘ

Chaoshan dialect → subgroupOf → Min Chinese ⓘ

Hengzhou dialect group → differsFrom → Min Chinese ⓘ

Hoklo language → languageGroup → Min Chinese ⓘ