Hokkien

Wikipedia

English

Etymology

Chinese	POJ romanization	Pinyin romanization
福建	Hok-kiàn	Fújiàn

Proper noun

Hokkien

1. a dialect subgroup of the Min Nan branch of the Chinese language which is mainly spoken in the south-eastern part of mainland China, Fujian, in Taiwan, by the Chinese minorities in Southeast Asia and by many overseas Chinese worldwide.

Synonyms

• Min Nan, Minnan, Southern Min, Hoklo, and Taiwanese

Translations

dialect of the Chinese language

Burmese: လက်ရှေစကား (my) (le'-shèi-za-gá) Chinese: Mandarin: 福建話 (cmn), 福建话 (cmn) (Fújiàn-huà), 閩南語 (cmn), 闽南语 (cmn) (Mǐn-Nán-yǔ), 福佬話 (cmn), 福佬话 (cmn) (Fúlǎo-huà) Hokkien: 福建話, 福建话 (Hok-kiàn-oē), 閩南語, 闽南语 (Bân-lâm-gú), 福佬話, 福佬话 (Hok-ló-oē) Indonesian: bahasa Hokkien (id) Japanese: 福建語 (ja) (ふっけんご, Fukken-go)

Khmer: ហុកកៀន (km) (hok kien), ចិនហុកគៀន (km) (chən hok kien) Lao: please add this translation if you can Malay: bahasa Hokkien (ms) Russian: хоккиен (ru) (xókkijen) m., фуцзяньхуа (ru) (fuczjan'xuá) m., фуцзяньский (ru) (fuczján'skij) m. Thai: ภาษาจีนฮกเกี้ยน (th) Vietnamese: tiếng Mân Nam (vi)

Min Nan — see Min Nan

See also

• Other branches of Min Nan (limited mutual intelligibility): Teochew (Chaoshan Division); Zhenan Min Division; Zhongshan Min Division; Qiongwen Division; Leizhou Min Division; Longyan Min Division

External links

• Ethnologue entry for Hokkien, nan