being brought in as a lingua franca. The Mandarin-speaking groups are the largest group in mainland China, but in the diaspora the Min, Hakka and Cantonese...

Chinese Filipinos in the Philippines, where it serves as the local Chinese lingua franca within the overseas Chinese community in the Philippines and acts...

anymore, besides being under Southern Min (Min Nan). On the other hand, those under Longyan Min, Datian Min, Zhenan Min have some to little mutual intelligibility...

languages, regional lingua francas, foreign and additional languages, heritage languages, languages in the religious domain, English as a lingua franca, and sign...

amongst Chinese Indonesians in Medan, North Sumatra, Indonesia. It is the lingua franca in Medan as well as the surrounding cities in the state of North...

ISBN 978-0-521-29653-3 Concise Encyclopedia of Languages of the World, p. 219 "Chinese, Min Nan". M. van der Wal, Geschiedenis van het Nederlands, 1992. ISBN 90-274-1839-X...

Hokkien's prominent role as a lingua franca previously among the Singaporean Chinese community. Teochew is a Southern Min language. As with other Sinitic...

as well as Taiwanese Hokkien which is spoken in Taiwan. Hokkien is the Min Nan pronunciation for the province of Fujian, and is generally the term used...

Proto-Min (pMǐn) is a comparative reconstruction of the common ancestor of the Min group of varieties of Chinese. Min varieties developed in the relative...

tun k- ka kan ke ken ki kin ko kon ku kun m- ma man me men mi min mo mon mu mun n- na nan ne nen ni nin no non nu nun s- sa san se sen si sin so son su...