Southern Fujian dialects

E453789

Min Chinese variety group of Sinitic language varieties

Southern Fujian dialects are a group of closely related Min Chinese varieties from China’s southern Fujian region that form the linguistic basis for Taiwanese Hokkien and several other overseas Chinese speech communities.

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All labels observed (6)

Label	Occurrences
Southern Fujian dialects canonical	2
Southern Min dialect continuum	2
Hokkien dialects of Fujian	1
Southern Fujian	1
Southern Fujian cultural sphere	1
southern Fujian	1

Statements (47)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Min Chinese variety ⓘ group of Sinitic language varieties ⓘ
associatedWith	Hokkien people NERFINISHED ⓘ Minnan culture NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasAlternativeName	Hokkien of southern Fujian ⓘ Minnan dialects of southern Fujian ⓘ Southern Min of southern Fujian NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasMajorVariety	Quanzhou dialect NERFINISHED ⓘ Xiamen dialect NERFINISHED ⓘ Zhangzhou dialect NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasRomanization	POJ-based schemes ⓘ Pe̍h-ōe-jī NERFINISHED ⓘ TLPA NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasWritingSystem	Chinese characters ⓘ
historicalOrigin	coastal Fujian ⓘ
languageBranch	Min NERFINISHED ⓘ
languageFamily	Sino-Tibetan ⓘ
lexicalFeature	extensive Min-specific vocabulary ⓘ retention of archaic Chinese words ⓘ
linguisticBasisFor	Hokkien in Southeast Asia NERFINISHED ⓘ Indonesian Hokkien NERFINISHED ⓘ Malaysian Hokkien NERFINISHED ⓘ Philippine Hokkien NERFINISHED ⓘ Singapore Hokkien NERFINISHED ⓘ Taiwanese Hokkien NERFINISHED ⓘ
mutualIntelligibility	largely mutually intelligible internally ⓘ partially intelligible with other Southern Min varieties ⓘ
notMutuallyIntelligibleWith	Cantonese NERFINISHED ⓘ Hakka NERFINISHED ⓘ Mandarin Chinese NERFINISHED ⓘ
partOf	Chinese languages NERFINISHED ⓘ Sinitic languages NERFINISHED ⓘ
phonologicalFeature	checked tones ⓘ distinction between literary and colloquial readings ⓘ tone language ⓘ tone sandhi ⓘ
spokenIn	Fujian Province NERFINISHED ⓘ Quanzhou NERFINISHED ⓘ Xiamen NERFINISHED ⓘ Zhangzhou NERFINISHED ⓘ southern Fujian ⓘ
subclassOf	Min Nan NERFINISHED ⓘ Southern Min NERFINISHED ⓘ
usedBy	overseas Chinese communities in Southeast Asia ⓘ
usedIn	religious practices in Minnan temples ⓘ trade and commerce in southern Fujian ⓘ traditional opera such as Liyuan opera ⓘ

Referenced by (8)

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

Taiwanese Hokkien → historicalOrigin → Southern Fujian dialects ⓘ

Southern Min → hasAlternativeName → Southern Fujian dialects ⓘ

nan → appliesTo → Southern Fujian dialects ⓘ

this entity surface form: Southern Min dialect continuum

Medan Hokkien → derivedFrom → Southern Fujian dialects ⓘ

this entity surface form: Hokkien dialects of Fujian

Hoklo people → primaryRegion → Southern Fujian dialects ⓘ

this entity surface form: southern Fujian

Zhangzhou dialect → region → Southern Fujian dialects ⓘ

this entity surface form: Southern Fujian

Zhangzhou dialect → partOf → Southern Fujian dialects ⓘ

this entity surface form: Southern Min dialect continuum

Meizhou Island → region → Southern Fujian dialects ⓘ

this entity surface form: Southern Fujian cultural sphere