Min

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Min is a major branch of the Chinese language family, encompassing diverse regional varieties spoken primarily in Fujian, Taiwan, and among overseas Chinese communities.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Min canonical 7

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (66)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Chinese language variety group
Sinitic language branch
distinctFrom Hakka Chinese
linked to: Hakka language

Mandarin Chinese
Wu Chinese
Yue Chinese
hasAncestor Middle Chinese
Old Chinese
hasFeature conservative phonological features
high internal dialect diversity
lexical items not shared with Mandarin
mutual unintelligibility among many Min varieties
hasISOClassification multiple ISO 639-3 codes for its varieties
hasMajorVariety Central Min
Chaoshan
Datian Min
Eastern Min
Fuzhou dialect
Hainanese
Hokkien
Jian’ou dialect
Leizhou Min
Min Bei
Min Dong
Min Nan
Northern Min
Pu-Xian Min
Puxian dialect
Qiong-Lei Min
Shaojiang Min
Southern Min
Taiwanese Hokkien
Teochew
Zhongshan Min
hasWritingSystem Chinese characters
languageBranch Sinitic
languageFamily Sino-Tibetan
partOf Sinitic languages
linked to: Chinese language
regionOfOrigin Fujian
southeastern China
spokenIn Australia
Brunei
linked to: Brunei Darussalam

Canada
Fujian Province
linked to: Fujian

Guangdong Province
Hainan Province
linked to: Hainan

Hong Kong
linked to: Hong Kong, China

Indonesia
Japan
Jiangxi Province
Macau
Malaysia
Myanmar
New Zealand
Overseas Chinese communities
Philippines
Singapore
Southeast Asia
Taiwan
Thailand
United States
Vietnam
linked to: Viet Nam

Zhejiang Province
subclassOf Chinese language
Sino-Tibetan language
usedBy Han Chinese

How these facts were elicited

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