Hokkien language
E45641
The Hokkien language is a Southern Min Chinese dialect widely spoken in southeastern China and among overseas Chinese communities in Southeast Asia, known for its significant influence on regional languages and cultures.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Hokkien Chinese | 4 |
| Hokkien language canonical | 2 |
| Hokkienese | 1 |
| Standard Hokkien | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T357010 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
Target entity: Hokkien language Context triple: [Cebuano language, hasLoanwordsFrom, Hokkien language]
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A.
Okinawan Japanese
Okinawan Japanese is a regional variety of the Japanese language spoken primarily in Okinawa, influenced by both Standard Japanese and the indigenous Ryukyuan languages.
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B.
Ryukyuan languages
The Ryukyuan languages are a group of closely related but distinct Japonic languages traditionally spoken in Japan’s Ryukyu Islands, many of which are now endangered.
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C.
Yapese
Yapese is an Austronesian language spoken primarily on the island of Yap and nearby islands in the western Pacific.
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D.
Kyushu dialect
The Kyushu dialect is a group of Japanese regional speech varieties spoken on Japan’s Kyushu island, known for distinctive pronunciation, vocabulary, and grammar that can be hard for speakers of standard Japanese to understand.
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E.
Hakka
Hakka is a Sinitic language spoken primarily by the Hakka people across southern China and various overseas Chinese communities.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Hokkien language Target entity description: The Hokkien language is a Southern Min Chinese dialect widely spoken in southeastern China and among overseas Chinese communities in Southeast Asia, known for its significant influence on regional languages and cultures.
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A.
Okinawan Japanese
Okinawan Japanese is a regional variety of the Japanese language spoken primarily in Okinawa, influenced by both Standard Japanese and the indigenous Ryukyuan languages.
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B.
Ryukyuan languages
The Ryukyuan languages are a group of closely related but distinct Japonic languages traditionally spoken in Japan’s Ryukyu Islands, many of which are now endangered.
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C.
Yapese
Yapese is an Austronesian language spoken primarily on the island of Yap and nearby islands in the western Pacific.
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D.
Kyushu dialect
The Kyushu dialect is a group of Japanese regional speech varieties spoken on Japan’s Kyushu island, known for distinctive pronunciation, vocabulary, and grammar that can be hard for speakers of standard Japanese to understand.
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E.
Hakka
Hakka is a Sinitic language spoken primarily by the Hakka people across southern China and various overseas Chinese communities.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (68)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Chinese language variety
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Sinitic language ⓘ Southern Min language ⓘ |
| closelyRelatedTo |
Hainanese language
ⓘ
Teochew ⓘ
surface form:
Teochew language
|
| hasAlternativeName |
Fukien language
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Hoklo language ⓘ Minnan language ⓘ Taiwanese Hokkien ⓘ
surface form:
Taiwanese (in Taiwan context)
|
| hasCulturalRole |
lingua franca of Southern Fujian diaspora
ⓘ
major language of Taiwanese Hokklo people ⓘ |
| hasDialect |
Amoy dialect
ⓘ
Medan Hokkien ⓘ Penang Hokkien ⓘ Philippine Hokkien ⓘ Quanzhou dialect ⓘ Singapore Hokkien ⓘ Taiwanese Hokkien ⓘ Xiamen dialect ⓘ Zhangzhou dialect ⓘ |
| hasGrammaticalFeature |
SVO basic word order
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classifier system ⓘ use of sentence-final particles ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
checked tones
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distinction between literary and colloquial readings ⓘ tone language ⓘ tone sandhi ⓘ |
| hasStandardForm |
Amoy-based standard Hokkien
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Taiwanese prestige variety ⓘ |
| historicalCenter |
Quanzhou
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Xiamen ⓘ Zhangzhou ⓘ |
| influenced |
Colloquial Singaporean English (Singlish)
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Indonesian loanwords ⓘ Malay loanwords ⓘ Philippine languages loanwords ⓘ Singaporean Mandarin vocabulary ⓘ Taiwanese popular culture ⓘ |
| ISO639-3Code | nan ⓘ |
| languageBranch | Chinese ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Sino-Tibetan languages ⓘ |
| originatesFrom |
Zhangzhou
ⓘ
surface form:
Southern Fujian
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| spokenIn |
Brunei Darussalam
ⓘ
surface form:
Brunei
Fujian ⓘ
surface form:
Fujian Province
Guangdong Province ⓘ Hainan ⓘ
surface form:
Hainan Province
Hong Kong, China ⓘ
surface form:
Hong Kong
Indonesia ⓘ Macau ⓘ Malaysia ⓘ Myanmar ⓘ Overseas Chinese communities in Southeast Asia ⓘ Philippines ⓘ Singapore ⓘ Taiwan, Province of China ⓘ
surface form:
Taiwan
Thailand ⓘ Viet Nam ⓘ
surface form:
Vietnam
Zhejiang Province ⓘ |
| subclassOf |
Taiwanese Hokkien
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surface form:
Min Nan language
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| usedByEthnicGroup |
Hoklo people
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Southern Min Chinese ⓘ |
| usedIn |
Taiwanese Hokkien pop music
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Taiwanese opera ⓘ local media in Taiwan ⓘ |
| writingSystem |
Chinese characters
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Latin alphabet ⓘ Pe̍h-ōe-jī ⓘ Taiwanese Romanization System ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Subject: Hokkien language Description of subject: The Hokkien language is a Southern Min Chinese dialect widely spoken in southeastern China and among overseas Chinese communities in Southeast Asia, known for its significant influence on regional languages and cultures.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.