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Min
閩民系
Total population
Approximately 115,000,000
Regions with significant populations
People's Republic of China (Fujian, Guangdong, Hainan, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Hong Kong, Macau), Taiwan Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand, Cambodia, Myanmar, Vietnam, Japan, Europe, United States
Languages
Min Chinese
Religion
Major religions include Buddhism (Theravada Buddhism or Chinese Buddhism), Confucianism, Daoism, Chinese folk religion Minor religions include Christianity and other religions
Related ethnic groups
Han Chinese (Eastern Min, Southern Min, Leizhou people, Hainan people, Taiwanese people, Puxian people, Min-Vietnamese people), Ancient Minyue people†
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 the Chinese diaspora, they form the majority of people in Taiwan and the majority of Han Chinese in Southeast Asian countries, like Thailand, Cambodia, Myanmar, Malaysia, Singapore, and the Philippines. The first two countries have majority Teochew-speaking Chinese minorities, whereas the last four house Hokkien-speaking Chinese minorities.
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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...
other variety of Chinese (such as Mandarin, Cantonese, Wu, Gan, Xiang, or Hakka). There are many Minspeakers among overseas Chinese in Southeast Asia...
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Look up MIN, Min, min, -min, or min. in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Min or MIN may refer to: Fujian, also called Mǐn, a province of ChinaMin Kingdom...
by total number of speakers. It is difficult to define what constitutes a language as opposed to a dialect. For example, Chinese and Arabic are sometimes...
minority are also speakers of a dialect of Min Nan known as Zhenan Min. If Huizhou Chinese was fully considered to be a subdivision of Wu Chinese, then people...
Zhongshan Min (simplified Chinese: 中山闽语; traditional Chinese: 中山閩語), known as Cunhua (村话; 村話) by its speakers, are three MinChinese dialect islands in...
Hok-chiu, or Fuzhounese, is the prestige variety of the Eastern Min branch of MinChinese spoken mainly in the Mindong region of Eastern Fujian Province...
Dzao Min (Chinese: 藻敏, Zao Min) is a Hmong–Mien language of China. Mao (2004:306) reports a total of more than 60,000 speakers in Liannan County and Yangshan...
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Tâi-lô. The Hoklo people (Chinese: 福佬人; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Ho̍h-ló-lâng) are a Han Chinese subgroup who speak Hokkien, a Southern Min language, or trace their...
of Minspeakers. It is one of three enclaves of Min in Zhongshan, the others being Longdu and Nanlang. Min is believed to have split from Old Chinese, rather...
many Min Nan speakers among overseas Chinese communities in Southeast Asia, as well as in the United States (Hoklo Americans). Many ethnic Han Chinese emigrants...
Northern Min (simplified Chinese: 闽北; traditional Chinese: 閩北; pinyin: Mǐnběi) is a group of mutually intelligible[citation needed] Min varieties spoken...
descendant from the Middle Chinese of the Sui–Tang era (6–8th centuries), as is true of most contemporary Chinese languages, with MinChinese languages being notable...
Republic of China. It is the world's 5th most traded currency as of April 2022. The yuan (Chinese: 元 or simplified Chinese: 圆; traditional Chinese: 圓; pinyin:...
political in that Min Nan speakers yearned for a singular identity that would substantially distinguish themselves from Mandarin Chinese. A phonetic alphabet...
standard written vernacular Chinese, the counterpart of spoken Standard Chinese, is similarly used as a literary form by speakers of all varieties. Dialectologist...
Min people may refer to: Speakers of MinChinese, a variety of Chinese originating in Fujian province The people of Minyue, an ancient Baiyue kingdom in...
purely made up of Min Zhuang speakers. Guixun-Anhe (贵训-安哈) Sankeshu (三颗数) Xionggu (雄估) Shangmabu (上麻布) - mixed with Nong Zhuang speakers Tianfang (田房) Getao...
The Longdu dialect is a variety of the Eastern Min branch of Chinese originating from the towns of Dachong and Shaxi in Zhongshan in the Pearl River Delta...
variety of MinChinese known as Taiwanese Hokkien, commonly called Minnanyu (Chinese: 閩南語; pinyin: Mǐnnányǔ; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Bân-lâm-gú), Southern Min, or Hokkien...
Chinese (simplified Chinese: 汉语; traditional Chinese: 漢語; pinyin: Hànyǔ; lit. 'Han language' or 中文; Zhōngwén; 'Chinese writing') is a group of languages...
Leizhou branch of MinChinese (Chinese: 黎话; pinyin: Líhuà). They include Cun, whose speakers are ethnically distinct. A quarter of Hlai speakers are monolingual...
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