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 ⓘ