Southern Min

English

Etymology

Partial calque of Chinese 閩南／闽南 (mǐnnán).

Proper noun

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.
   • 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.

Synonyms

• (from Mandarin) Min Nan

Translations

the language

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 閩南語／闽南语 (man⁵ naam⁴ jyu⁵), 閩南話／闽南话 (man⁵ naam⁴ waa^6-2)

  Hakka: 學老話／学老话 (Ho̍k-ló-fa), 閩南話／闽南话 (Mén-nàm-fa)

  Hokkien: (Xiamen) 閩南語／闽南语 (zh-min-nan) (Bân-lâm-gú); (Zhangzhou) 閩南語／闽南语 (zh-min-nan) (Bân-lâm-gí)

  Mandarin: 閩南語／闽南语 (zh) (mǐnnányǔ), 閩南話／闽南话 (zh) (Mǐnnánhuà)

• Farefare: minnanne
• French: Minnan m
• German: Min Nan (de) n, Minnan (de) n
• Indonesian: bahasa Hokkien (id)
• Japanese: ミン南語 (ミンなんご, minnango), 閩南語 (ja) (binnango, minnango)
• Khmer: មិងណាន (ming nan), ត្បូងមិន (tboungmɨn)
• Korean: 민남어 (minnameo)
• Limburgish: Minnan n
• Malay: please add this translation if you can
• Portuguese: minnan m
• Russian: миньна́нь m (minʹnánʹ), южноми́ньский (ru) m (južnomínʹskij)
• Scots: Soothren Min
• Spanish: min nan (es) m
• Swedish: min nan (sv), minnan, sydlig min
• Thai: หมิ่นใต้
• Vietnamese: tiếng Mân Nam

Hokkien — see Hokkien

See also

• Hokkien
• Taiwanese

Further reading

• Ethnologue entry for Southern Min, nan ⁠

Anagrams

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