Southern Min

English

Etymology

Partial calque of Chinese 閩南 / 闽南 (Mǐnnán).

Proper noun

Southern Min

1. A group of local languages of Min Chinese, which can trace their origins to southern Fujian province, China.
2. (loosely) Hokkien, including Amoy, Taiwanese Hokkien and other varieties in Southeast Asia.
   1. (chiefly Taiwan) the varieties of Hokkien spoken in mainland China, usually as opposed to Taiwanese Taigi spoken in Taiwan
   • 1999, Murray A. Rubinstein, editor, Taiwan: A New History‎^[1], M.E. Sharpe, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page xi:

     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.

Synonyms

• (from Mandarin) Min Nan

Translations

the language

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 閩南語 / 闽南语 (man⁵ naam⁴ jyu⁵), 閩南話 / 闽南话 (man⁵ naam⁴ waa^6-2)

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

  Hokkien: (Xiamen) 閩南語 / 闽南语 (zh-min-nan) (Bân-lâm-gú); (Zhangzhou) 閩南語 / 闽南语 (zh-min-nan) (Bân-lâm-gí)

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

• Farefare: minnanne
• 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), ត្បូងមិន (tboungmɨn)
• Korean: 민남어 (minnameo)
• Limburgish: Minnan n
• Malay: min selatan, minnan
• 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

Further reading

• Ethnologue entry for Southern Min, nan ⁠

Anagrams

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