Xiamen dialect

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The Xiamen dialect is a Southern Min variety spoken in and around the city of Xiamen in Fujian, China, and is historically influential as a prestige form of Hokkien used in trade and culture across Southeast Asia.

All labels observed (3)

Label Occurrences
Xiamen dialect canonical 4
Amoy dialect 3
Xiamen Hokkien 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Chinese topolect
Hokkien variety
Southern Min dialect
alternativeName Amoy Hokkien
Amoy Hokkien
surface form: Amoy dialect
closelyRelatedTo Quanzhou dialect
Zhangzhou dialect
country China
hasFeature extensive tone sandhi rules
literary-colloquial vocabulary doublets
hasPrestigeStatus prestige variety of Hokkien
historicalCenter port city of Xiamen
historicallyUsedFor Christian missionary work
education in overseas Chinese communities
literature
maritime trade
influenced Medan Hokkien
Penang Hokkien
Philippine Hokkien
Singapore Hokkien
Taiwanese Hokkien
ISOStatus no separate ISO 639-3 code (grouped under Southern Min)
languageBranch Chinese language
surface form: Sinitic languages
languageFamily Sino-Tibetan languages
languageGroup Min Chinese
languageSubgroup Southern Min
mutualIntelligibility largely mutually intelligible with Taiwanese Hokkien
phonologicalFeature checked tones
distinction between literary and colloquial readings
tone sandhi system
region Xiamen
surface form: Xiamen metropolitan area

southern Fujian
romanizationSystem POJ-based schemes
Pe̍h-ōe-jī
TLPA
spokenIn Fujian
surface form: Fujian Province

Kinmen
China
surface form: People's Republic of China

Southeast Asia
Xiamen
standardFor Amoy Hokkien
many overseas Hokkien communities
subclassOf Hokkien
Southern Min
usedBy Hokkien people
surface form: Hokkien ethnic group
usedIn Xiamen local media
traditional opera (Liyuan opera and related forms)
writingSystem Chinese characters
Latin alphabet (romanization)

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Referenced by (8)

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

Hokkien language hasDialect Xiamen dialect
Southern Min hasVariety Xiamen dialect
this entity surface form: Amoy dialect
Quanzhou dialect historicallyInfluenced Xiamen dialect
this entity surface form: Amoy dialect
Quanzhou dialect closelyRelatedTo Xiamen dialect
Minnan language hasMajorDialect Xiamen dialect
Zhangzhou dialect influenced Xiamen dialect
this entity surface form: Amoy dialect
Zhangzhou dialect closelyRelatedTo Xiamen dialect
Philippine Hokkien closelyRelatedTo Xiamen dialect
this entity surface form: Xiamen Hokkien