Min Nan

See also: minnan, Minnan, and Mǐnnán

English

Alternative forms

Mǐn Nán
Minnan
Min-nan

Etymology

From Mandarin Chinese 閩南／闽南 (Mǐn Nán), "Southern Min" (i.e. south of the Min River in Fujian).

Proper noun

Min Nan

A group of local languages/dialects which can trace their origins to southern Fujian province, China. In common parlance, Southern Min usually refers to Hokkien, which includes Amoy dialect, Taiwanese Hokkien and other varieties in Southeast Asia, as well as Teochew. It belongs to the Min dialect group of the Sinitic branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family.

Synonyms

(Chinese language): Southern Min

Translations

the language

Chinese:
Cantonese: 閩南語, 闽南语 (man⁵ naam⁴ jyu⁵), 閩南話, 闽南话 (man⁵ naam⁴ waa⁶^-²)

Hakka: 學老話, 学老话 (Ho̍k-ló-fa), 閩南話, 闽南话 (Mén-nàm-fa)

Mandarin: 閩南語 (zh), 闽南语 (zh) (mǐnnányǔ), 閩南話 (zh), 闽南话 (zh) (Mǐnnánhuà)

Min Nan: (Xiamen) 閩南語 (zh-min-nan), 闽南语 (zh-min-nan) (Bân-lâm-gú); (Zhangzhou) 閩南語 (zh-min-nan), 闽南语 (zh-min-nan) (Bân-lâm-gí)
French: Minnan m
German: Min Nan (de) n, Minnan (de) n
Indonesian: bahasa Hokkien (id)
Japanese: ミン南語 (ミンなんご, minnango), 閩南語 (ja) (binnango, minnango)
Khmer: មិងណាន (ming nan)

Korean: 민남어 (minnameo)
Limburgish: Minnan n
Malay: please add this translation if you can
Portuguese: minnan m
Russian: миньна́нь m (minʹnánʹ), южноми́ньский (ru) m (južnomínʹskij)
Scots: Soothren Min
Spanish: min nan (es) m
Swedish: min nan (sv), minnan, sydlig min
Thai: หมิ่นใต้
Vietnamese: tiếng Mân Nam

Hokkien — see Hokkien

See also

Hokkien
Taiwanese

Wiktionary's coverage of Min Nan terms

Further reading

Ethnologue entry for Min Nan, nan

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