Southern Min

Partial calque of Chinese 閩南 / 闽南 (Mǐnnán).

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.

• (from Mandarin) Min Nan

• Hokkien
• Taiwanese

• Ethnologue entry for Southern Min, nan ⁠

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