For the Min dialects of northeast Fujian, including Fuzhou, historically referred to as Northern Min, see Eastern Min.
Northern Min
Min Bei
Mâing-bă̤-ngṳ̌/閩北語
Native to
China
Region
Nanping (northwest Fujian)
Native speakers
2.5 million (2004)[1]
Language family
Sino-Tibetan
Sinitic
Chinese
Min
Inland Min
Northern Min
Early forms
Proto-Sino-Tibetan
Old Chinese[a]
Proto-Min
Dialects
Jian'ou
Jianyang
Chong'an
Songxi
Zhenghe
Writing system
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.
^Language atlas of China (2nd edition), City University of Hong Kong, 2012, 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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