Min Bei

E454298

Min Bei is a major northern branch of the Min group of Sinitic (Chinese) languages, spoken primarily in parts of Fujian province in southeastern China.

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Label Occurrences
Min Bei canonical 1

Statements (44)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Chinese language variety
Min Chinese branch
Sinitic language
country China
geographicDistribution Fujian province, China NERFINISHED
southeastern China
hasAlternativeName Min Bei Chinese NERFINISHED
Northern Min NERFINISHED
hasAncestor Old Chinese NERFINISHED
Proto-Min NERFINISHED
hasDialect Jian'ou dialect
Jianyang dialect NERFINISHED
Pucheng dialect NERFINISHED
Shunchang dialect NERFINISHED
hasGlottocode nort3180
hasISOCode mnp
hasLinguasphereCode 79-AAA-bd
hasPhonologicalFeature complex tone sandhi
distinction between voiced and voiceless initials in historical layers
hasWritingSystem Chinese characters
isNotMutuallyIntelligibleWith Cantonese NERFINISHED
Mandarin Chinese NERFINISHED
Standard Chinese NERFINISHED
isPartOf Chinese dialect continuum NERFINISHED
isSubjectOf studies in Chinese dialect geography
languageBranch Sinitic NERFINISHED
languageFamily Sino-Tibetan NERFINISHED
languageGroup Min NERFINISHED
linguisticClassificationSource Chinese dialectology
region East Asia
sharesAncestryWith Fuzhou dialect NERFINISHED
Hokkien NERFINISHED
Other Min Chinese varieties
spokenIn Fujian province NERFINISHED
People's Republic of China NERFINISHED
southeastern China
spokenPrimarilyIn northern Fujian
subclassOf Min Chinese NERFINISHED
Sinitic languages NERFINISHED
Sino-Tibetan languages NERFINISHED
typologicalFeature analytic language
tonal language
usedAs vernacular language in northern Fujian
usedBy ethnic Han Chinese

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Min Chinese hasMajorVariety Min Bei