Min Chinese

E123012

Min Chinese is a major and diverse branch of the Sinitic language family, comprising several mutually unintelligible varieties spoken primarily in China’s southeastern coastal regions and among overseas Chinese communities.

All labels observed (3)

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (51)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Chinese language variety group ⓘ
Sinitic language branch ⓘ
hasCharacteristic complex tone systems ⓘ
conservative phonological features ⓘ
high internal diversity ⓘ
lexical archaisms ⓘ
mutually unintelligible internal varieties ⓘ
preservation of distinctions lost in Mandarin ⓘ
hasGlottocode minn1241 ⓘ
hasISOCode zh-min ⓘ
hasLexicalFeature numerous regionally distinctive vocabulary items ⓘ
hasMajorVariety Chaoshan Min ⓘ
Fuzhou dialect ⓘ
Hainanese ⓘ
Hokkien ⓘ
Leizhou Min ⓘ
Min Bei ⓘ
Min Dong ⓘ
Min Nan ⓘ
linked to: Taiwanese Hokkien

Min Zhong ⓘ
Pu-Xian Min ⓘ
Qiong-Lei Min ⓘ
Taiwanese Hokkien ⓘ
Teochew ⓘ
hasPhonologicalFeature preservation of entering tones ⓘ
rich inventory of tones ⓘ
historicalDevelopment diverged early from other Sinitic branches ⓘ
languageFamily Sino-Tibetan ⓘ
originatesFrom southeastern China ⓘ
spokenIn Fujian Province ⓘ
linked to: Fujian

Guangdong Province ⓘ
Hainan Province ⓘ
linked to: Hainan

Indonesia ⓘ
Jiangxi Province ⓘ
Malaysia ⓘ
Philippines ⓘ
Singapore ⓘ
Southeast Asia ⓘ
Taiwan ⓘ
linked to: Formosa

Thailand ⓘ
Vietnam ⓘ
linked to: Viet Nam

Zhejiang Province ⓘ
overseas Chinese communities ⓘ
subclassOf Chinese language ⓘ
Sinitic languages ⓘ
linked to: Chinese language

Sino-Tibetan languages ⓘ
usedBy Han Chinese ⓘ
usedIn Chinese diaspora communities in Southeast Asia ⓘ
local media in Fujian ⓘ
local media in Taiwan ⓘ
writingSystem Chinese characters ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (48)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Eastern China → language → Min Chinese ⓘ
subject linked to: eastern China
Southern China → hasLanguageGroup → Min Chinese ⓘ
subject linked to: southern China
Teochew → subgroupOf → Min Chinese ⓘ
Chinese language → hasPart → Min Chinese ⓘ
Northern Mandarin → contrastedWith → Min Chinese ⓘ
Min → isAmbiguousWith → Min (Chinese language group) ⓘ
linked to: Min Chinese
Middle Chinese → ancestorOf → Min Chinese ⓘ
Southern Min → subclassOf → Min Chinese ⓘ
Southern Min → languageBranch → Min Chinese ⓘ
Quanzhou dialect → languageGroup → Min Chinese ⓘ
Hainanese language → subclassOf → Min Chinese ⓘ
Minnan language → subclassOf → Min Chinese ⓘ
Minnan language → languageGroup → Min Chinese ⓘ
Chaoshan dialect → subgroupOf → Min Chinese ⓘ
Hengzhou dialect group → differsFrom → Min Chinese ⓘ
Hoklo language → languageGroup → Min Chinese ⓘ
Han → hasLinguisticGroup → Min Chinese ⓘ
Taiwanese Holo → subfamily → Min Chinese ⓘ
Min Bei → subclassOf → Min Chinese ⓘ
Qiong-Lei Min → subclassOf → Min Chinese ⓘ
Pu-Xian Min → subgroupOf → Min Chinese ⓘ
Amoy Hokkien → languageGroup → Min Chinese ⓘ
Min region → associatedWith → Min Chinese ⓘ
Min region → associatedWith → Min Chinese language ⓘ
linked to: Min Chinese
Eastern Min → subclassOf → Min Chinese ⓘ
Proto-Sinitic → ancestorOf → Min Chinese ⓘ
Yuebei Hakka → isDistinctFrom → Min Chinese ⓘ
Puxian Min → subgroupOf → Min Chinese ⓘ
Minnan → subclassOf → Min Chinese ⓘ
Chaoshan language → subbranch → Min Chinese ⓘ
Swatow people → hasLanguageFamily → Min Chinese ⓘ
Chiuchow people → hasLanguageFamily → Min Chinese ⓘ
Qiongzhou dialect → subclassOf → Min Chinese ⓘ
Qiongzhou dialect → languageGroup → Min Chinese ⓘ
Proto-Min → isAncestorOf → Min Chinese ⓘ
Minnan people → languageBranch → Min Chinese ⓘ
Changdu Gan → differsFrom → Min Chinese ⓘ
TLPA → languageBranch → Min Chinese ⓘ
Hainanese people → dialectOf → Min Chinese ⓘ