Eastern Min

Eastern Min
  • Min Dong (閩東語)
  • Foochowese (福州話)
平話 Bàng-uâ
RegionSoutheast China, Taiwan, Southeast Asia, United States
Native speakers
11 million (2022)[1]
Early forms
Varieties
Chinese characters and Foochow Romanized
Official status
Official language in
Matsu Islands, Taiwan[5][6]
Recognised minority
language in
statutory language for public transport in the Matsu Islands[7]
Language codes
ISO 639-3cdo
Glottologmind1253
  Eastern Min
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Eastern Min or Min Dong (traditional Chinese: 閩東語; simplified Chinese: 闽东语; pinyin: Mǐndōngyǔ, Foochow Romanized: Mìng-dĕ̤ng-ngṳ̄) is a branch of the Min group of the Chinese languages of China. The prestige form and most commonly cited representative form is the Fuzhou dialect, the speech of the capital of Fujian.[8]

  1. ^ Eastern Min at Ethnologue (27th ed., 2024) Closed access icon
  2. ^ 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, JSTOR 2718766
  3. ^ Pulleyblank, Edwin G. (1984), Middle Chinese: A study in Historical Phonology, Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, p. 3, ISBN 978-0-774-80192-8
  4. ^ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian (2023-07-10). "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.
  5. ^ 本土語言納中小學必修 潘文忠:將按語發法實施 (in Chinese)
  6. ^ "國家語言發展法 第二條".
  7. ^ 大眾運輸工具播音語言平等保障法
  8. ^ Li Rulong (李如龙) (1994). 福州方言词典 (in Chinese) (Rev. 1st ed.). Fuzhou: Fujian People's Press. p. 1. ISBN 7211023546.


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