| Northern Min | |
|---|---|
| Min Bei | |
| Mâing-bă̤-ngṳ̌/閩北語 | |
| Native to | China |
| Region | Nanping (northwest Fujian) |
Native speakers | 2.5 million (2004)[1] |
Sino-Tibetan
| |
Early forms | |
| Dialects | |
| Kienning Colloquial Romanized (Jian'ou dialect) | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | mnp |
| Glottolog | minb1236 |
| Linguasphere | 79-AAA-ha |
 Northern Min | |
 Counties of Nanping prefecture, Fujian | |
Northern Min (simplified Chinese: 闽北; traditional Chinese: 閩北; pinyin: Mǐnběi) is a group of mutually intelligible[citation needed] Min varieties spoken in Nanping prefecture of northwestern Fujian.
- ^ Zhang, Zhenxing, ed. (2012), Language Atlas of China (2nd ed.), City University of Hong Kong, p. 178, ISBN 978-7-10-007054-6.
- ^ Mei, Tsu-lin (1970), "Tones and prosody in Middle Chinese and the origin of the rising tone", Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, 30: 86–110, doi:10.2307/2718766, JSTOR 2718766
- ^ Pulleyblank, Edwin G. (1984), Middle Chinese: A study in Historical Phonology, Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, p. 3, ISBN 978-0-7748-0192-8
- ^ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian (2023-07-10). "Glottolog 4.8 - Min". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. doi:10.5281/zenodo.7398962. Archived from the original on 2023-10-13. Retrieved 2023-10-13.
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