Eastern Min

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Eastern Min is a major branch of the Min group of Sinitic languages, spoken primarily in and around Fuzhou in China’s Fujian province.

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Label Occurrences
Eastern Min canonical 2

Statements (50)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Sinitic language variety
branch of Min Chinese
developedFrom Middle Chinese
Old Chinese NERFINISHED
geographicDistribution northeastern Fujian
hasAlternativeName Eastern Min Chinese NERFINISHED
Mindong NERFINISHED
hasDialect Changle dialect
Fuzhou dialect NERFINISHED
Lianjiang dialect NERFINISHED
Luoyuan dialect
Matsu dialect
Minqing dialect NERFINISHED
Ningde dialect NERFINISHED
Yongtai dialect NERFINISHED
hasGlottocode east2332
hasInfluenceFrom Standard Mandarin NERFINISHED
hasInfluenceOn Fuzhou regional Mandarin
hasISOCode cdo
hasMajorVariety Fuzhou dialect NERFINISHED
Fuzhounese NERFINISHED
hasPhonologicalFeature checked syllables
complex tone sandhi
initial consonant clusters in historical layers
rich tone inventory
voiceless sonorants in some dialects
hasWritingSystem Chinese characters
romanization systems
isClassifiedBy Chinese dialectology
isNotMutuallyIntelligibleWith Cantonese NERFINISHED
Hakka Chinese NERFINISHED
Mandarin Chinese NERFINISHED
Southern Min NERFINISHED
Wu Chinese NERFINISHED
isSubjectOf comparative studies of Min dialects
isUsedAs regional lingua franca in Fuzhou area
languageBranch Sinitic NERFINISHED
languageFamily Sino-Tibetan NERFINISHED
languageGroup Min NERFINISHED
sharesCommonOriginWith other Min varieties
spokenIn Fujian province NERFINISHED
Fuzhou NERFINISHED
Matsu Islands NERFINISHED
Ningde NERFINISHED
People's Republic of China NERFINISHED
Taiwan NERFINISHED
diaspora communities in Southeast Asia
subclassOf Chinese language NERFINISHED
Min Chinese NERFINISHED
Sinitic languages NERFINISHED

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Fuzhou localLanguage Eastern Min
Southern Min closelyRelatedTo Eastern Min