Eastern Min

E550817

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

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Eastern Min canonical 12
Eastern Min continuum 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (50)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Sinitic language variety
branch of Min Chinese
developedFrom Middle Chinese
Old Chinese
geographicDistribution northeastern Fujian
hasAlternativeName Eastern Min Chinese
Mindong
hasDialect Changle dialect
Fuzhou dialect
Lianjiang dialect
linked to: Fuzhou dialect

Luoyuan dialect
Matsu dialect
Minqing dialect
linked to: Xinghua dialect

Ningde dialect
linked to: Fuzhou dialect

Yongtai dialect
hasGlottocode east2332
hasInfluenceFrom Standard Mandarin
linked to: Standard Chinese
hasInfluenceOn Fuzhou regional Mandarin
hasISOCode cdo
hasMajorVariety Fuzhou dialect
Fuzhounese
linked to: Fuzhou dialect
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
Hakka Chinese
linked to: Hakka language

Mandarin Chinese
Southern Min
Wu Chinese
isSubjectOf comparative studies of Min dialects
isUsedAs regional lingua franca in Fuzhou area
languageBranch Sinitic
linked to: Chinese language
languageFamily Sino-Tibetan
languageGroup Min
sharesCommonOriginWith other Min varieties
spokenIn Fujian province
linked to: Fujian

Fuzhou
Matsu Islands
Ningde
People's Republic of China
linked to: China

Taiwan
diaspora communities in Southeast Asia
subclassOf Chinese language
Min Chinese
Sinitic languages
linked to: Chinese language

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (13)

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

Fuzhou localLanguage Eastern Min
Southern Min closelyRelatedTo Eastern Min
Fuzhou dialect subgroupOf Eastern Min
Fuzhou dialect hasLanguageSubgroup Eastern Min
Qiong-Lei Min isDistinctFrom Eastern Min
Min region hasDialectGroup Eastern Min
Matsu dialect (Eastern Min) belongsTo Eastern Min continuum
linked to: Eastern Min
Min hasMajorVariety Eastern Min
Proto-Min isAncestorOf Eastern Min