Amoy Hokkien

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Chinese language variety Sinitic language variety Southern Min dialect

Amoy Hokkien is a Southern Min Chinese dialect originating from the Xiamen (Amoy) region of Fujian, historically influential as a prestige variety and a major source for overseas Hokkien and Taiwanese speech.

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All labels observed (3)

Label	Occurrences
Amoy Hokkien canonical	7
Amoy dialect	2
nan (for Southern Min macrolanguage)	1

Statements (51)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Chinese language variety ⓘ Sinitic language variety ⓘ Southern Min dialect ⓘ
alternativeName	Amoy dialect NERFINISHED ⓘ Xiamen Hokkien NERFINISHED ⓘ Xiamen dialect NERFINISHED ⓘ 厦门话 NERFINISHED ⓘ
associatedWith	maritime trade in Southeast Asia ⓘ
developedFrom	Quanzhou and Zhangzhou Southern Min varieties ⓘ
hasDialectContinuumWith	Quanzhou Hokkien NERFINISHED ⓘ Zhangzhou Hokkien NERFINISHED ⓘ
historicalRole	basis of Taiwanese broadcast standard in early 20th century ⓘ prestige variety of Southern Min ⓘ standard for overseas Hokkien speech ⓘ
influenced	Malaysian Hokkien NERFINISHED ⓘ Overseas Hokkien varieties ⓘ Philippine Hokkien NERFINISHED ⓘ Singapore Hokkien NERFINISHED ⓘ Taiwanese Hokkien NERFINISHED ⓘ
languageBranch	Sinitic languages ⓘ
languageFamily	Sino-Tibetan languages ⓘ
languageGroup	Min Chinese NERFINISHED ⓘ
languageSubgroup	Southern Min NERFINISHED ⓘ
lexicalRelation	shares vocabulary with other Southern Min dialects ⓘ
mutualIntelligibility	largely mutually intelligible with Quanzhou Hokkien ⓘ largely mutually intelligible with Taiwanese Hokkien ⓘ largely mutually intelligible with Zhangzhou Hokkien ⓘ
namedAfter	Xiamen NERFINISHED ⓘ
nativeName	Amoy dialect NERFINISHED ⓘ Xiamen dialect NERFINISHED ⓘ 厦门话 ⓘ
phonologicalFeature	checked tones ⓘ distinction between nasal and oral finals ⓘ tone language ⓘ tone sandhi system ⓘ
regionOfOrigin	Xiamen region of Fujian NERFINISHED ⓘ
spokenIn	Amoy region NERFINISHED ⓘ Fujian Province NERFINISHED ⓘ Kinmen NERFINISHED ⓘ Quemoy NERFINISHED ⓘ Southeast China NERFINISHED ⓘ Xiamen NERFINISHED ⓘ Zhangzhou-Xiamen region NERFINISHED ⓘ
subgroupOf	Hokkien NERFINISHED ⓘ Min Nan NERFINISHED ⓘ Southern Min NERFINISHED ⓘ
usedAs	lingua franca among Southern Min speakers in Xiamen port ⓘ
usesRomanization	Church Romanization NERFINISHED ⓘ Pe̍h-ōe-jī NERFINISHED ⓘ
writingSystem	Chinese characters ⓘ Latin alphabet ⓘ

Referenced by (10)

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

Taiwanese Hokkien → closelyRelatedTo → Amoy Hokkien ⓘ

Chiuchow → ISO639_3Code → Amoy Hokkien ⓘ

this entity surface form: nan (for Southern Min macrolanguage)

Pe̍h-ōe-jī → languageWritten → Amoy Hokkien ⓘ

Singapore Hokkien → influencedBy → Amoy Hokkien ⓘ

Chaoshan Min → closelyRelatedTo → Amoy Hokkien ⓘ

this entity surface form: Amoy dialect

Penang Hokkien → differsFrom → Amoy Hokkien ⓘ

Xiamen dialect → standardFor → Amoy Hokkien ⓘ

Xiamen dialect → alternativeName → Amoy Hokkien ⓘ

this entity surface form: Amoy dialect

Xiamen dialect → alternativeName → Amoy Hokkien ⓘ

Hokkien → hasDialects → Amoy Hokkien ⓘ