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Southern Min (simplified Chinese: 闽南语; traditional Chinese: 閩南語; pinyin: Mǐnnányǔ; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Bân-lâm-gí/gú; lit. 'Southern Min language'), Minnan (Mandarin pronunciation: [mìn.nǎn]) or Banlam (Min Nan Chinese pronunciation:), is a group of linguistically similar and historically related Chinese languages that form a branch of Min Chinese spoken in Fujian (especially ...
The majority of Chinese Singaporeans, Chinese Malaysians, Chinese Filipinos, Chinese Indonesians, Chinese Thais, Chinese Cambodians are of Southern Min-speaking background (particularly Hokkien and/or Teochew), although the rise of Mandarin has led to a decline in the use of Min Chinese.
The Southern Min Wikipedia (Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Wikipedia Bân-lâm-gú), also known as Min Nan Wikipedia [1] and Holopedia [2] is the Southern Min edition of Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. [3] It is the second largest Wikipedia in a Sinitic language, after Mandarin. [4] Written in Pe̍h-ōe-jī, it mainly uses the Taiwanese Hokkien dialect.
Stone Statue of Laozi ("Ló-tsú" in Hoklo language) at Mount Qingyuan in Quanzhou, Fujian, China.. Minnan culture or Hokkien/Hoklo culture (Hokkien Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Bân-lâm bûn-hòa; Chinese: 閩南 文化), also considered as the Mainstream Southern Min Culture, refers to the culture of the Hoklo people, a group of Han Chinese people who have historically been the dominant demographic in ...
Min-speaking peoples (simplified Chinese: 闽民系; traditional Chinese: 閩民系; pinyin: Mǐn mínxì) are a major subgroup of ethnic Han Chinese people, speaking Min Chinese languages. They mainly live or trace roots from Fujian , Hainan , Southern Zhejiang and Guangdong province 's Leizhou and Chaoshan regions.
In Southeast Asia and the English press, Hokkien is used in common parlance to refer to the Southern Min dialects of southern Fujian, and does not include reference to dialects of other Sinitic branches also present in Fujian such as the Fuzhou language (Eastern Min), Pu-Xian Min, Northern Min, Gan Chinese or Hakka.
An influx of Chinese migrants, facing China's economic uncertainty, are crossing the U.S.'s southern border.
A few varieties in the Jiang–Huai, Wu, southern Min and Yue areas feature the old southern pattern of a zero attributive marker. [161] Nominalization of verb phrases or predicates is achieved by following them with a marker, usually the same as the attributive marker, though some varieties use a different marker. [163]