Southern Min en · PROPN
Etymology
Partial calque of Chinese 閩南 /闽南 (Mǐnnán).
Meanings
- A group of local languages of Min Chinese, which can trace their origins to southern Fujian province, China.
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(broadly) Hokkien, including Amoy, Taiwanese Hokkien and other varieties in Southeast Asia.
To truly complete the journey and discover the roots of Taiwan’s southern Min majority one would have to travel to the P’eng-hu islands (Pescadores) and then still farther west to the shores of southern Fukien and the cities and towns along the province’s east-facing coast, which is where new history of Taiwan begins.
1999, Murray A. Rubinstein, editor, Taiwan: A New History, M.E. Sharpe, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page xi:
- (Taiwan, broadly) Hokkien, including Amoy, Taiwanese Hokkien and other varieties in Southeast Asia. ▸ the varieties of Hokkien spoken in mainland China, usually as opposed to Taiwanese Taigi spoken in Taiwan
Relateds
Synonyms
Min Nan (from Mandarin)
Translations (31)
nan-hbl 閩南語 /闽南语 (the language) · cmn 閩南話 /闽南话 (the language) · ru миньна́нь (the language) · es min nan (the language) · sco Soothren Min (the language) · vi tiếng Mân Nam (the language) · ms minnan (the language) · km ត្បូងមិន (the language) · fr Minnan (the language) · km មិងណាន (the language) · ko 민남어 (the language) · sv minnan (the language) · li Minnan (the language) · cmn 閩南語 /闽南语 (the language) · id bahasa Hokkien (the language) · ja ミン南語 (the language) · ru южноми́ньский (the language) · gur minnanne (the language) · hak 閩南話 /闽南话 (the language) · yue 閩南話 /闽南话 (the language) · sv sydlig min (the language) · de Minnan (the language) · ja 閩南語 (the language) · sv min nan (the language) · nan-hbl 閩南語 /闽南语 (the language) · hak 學老話 /学老话 (the language) · ms min selatan (the language) · th หมิ่นใต้ (the language) · de Min Nan (the language) · pt minnan (the language) · yue 閩南語 /闽南语 (the language)