Hokkien (Minnan)

GPTKB entity

Statements (51)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:Chinese_characters
gptkbp:alternativeName gptkb:Taiwanese_Hokkien
gptkb:Southern_Min
gptkb:Minnan
gptkbp:closelyRelatedTo gptkb:Leizhou_Min
gptkb:Teochew
gptkb:Hainanese
gptkbp:conservationEfforts language revitalization in Taiwan
gptkbp:culturalSignificance used in religious ceremonies
important in Taiwanese opera
used in traditional folk songs
gptkbp:descendedFrom gptkb:Middle_Chinese
gptkb:Old_Chinese
gptkbp:hasDialects gptkb:Southern_Min
gptkbp:ISO639-3 nan
gptkbp:languageFamily gptkb:Sino-Tibetan
gptkbp:linguisticFeature tone language
has literary and colloquial readings
lacks mutual intelligibility with Cantonese
lacks mutual intelligibility with Mandarin
gptkbp:notableLanguage gptkb:Taiwanese_Hokkien
gptkb:Medan_Hokkien
gptkb:Penang_Hokkien
gptkb:Amoy_Hokkien
gptkb:Quanzhou_Hokkien
gptkb:Zhangzhou_Hokkien
gptkbp:numberOfSpeakers over 40 million
gptkbp:regionSpoken gptkb:China
gptkb:Indonesia
gptkb:Malaysia
gptkb:Myanmar
gptkb:Philippines
gptkb:Singapore
gptkb:Southeast_Asia
gptkb:Taiwan
gptkb:Thailand
gptkb:United_States
gptkb:Vietnam
gptkb:Southern_Fujian,_China
gptkbp:script gptkb:Pe̍h-ōe-jī
gptkb:Han_characters
gptkbp:status recognized regional language in Taiwan
gptkbp:subfamily gptkb:Sinitic
gptkbp:teaches taught in some schools in Taiwan
gptkbp:usedIn media in Taiwan
Chinese diaspora communities
gptkbp:writingSystem gptkb:Chinese_characters
gptkb:Latin_alphabet_(Pe̍h-ōe-jī)
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Hsia-men
gptkbp:bfsLayer 6
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Hokkien (Minnan)