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Zhenan Min
浙南闽语
Native to
China
Region
Zhejiang
Native speakers
(undated figure of 570,000)
Language family
Sino-Tibetan
Sinitic
Chinese
Min
Coastal Min
Southern Min
Zhenan Min
Early forms
Proto-Sino-Tibetan
Old Chinese[a]
Proto-Min
Writing system
Chinese characters
Language codes
ISO 639-3
None (mis)
Glottolog
zhen1239
Linguasphere
79-AAA-jb (transition to 79-AAA-h and -i)
Zhenan Min
Zhenan Min (simplified Chinese: 浙南闽语; traditional Chinese: 浙南閩語; pinyin: Zhènán Mǐnyǔ; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Chiat-lâm-bân-gí; lit. 'Min language in southern Zhejiang'), is a Min Nan Chinese language spoken in the vicinity of Wenzhou, in the southeast of Zhejiang province.
The Zhenan Min people had settled in areas such as Cangnan County, Pingyang County, Yuhuan County and Dongtou County from Fujian Province as early as the Tang dynasty period (618–907) and new waves of immigrants continued during the Southern Song dynasty, Ming dynasty and the Qing dynasty periods.
Zhenan Min has in the past been influenced by Eastern Min and the Northern Min, due to its close geographical proximity with those areas. It has limited intelligibility with other Min Nan dialects, such as Teochew and Hokkien–Taiwanese. Zhenan Min, in proximity to the Wenzhou dialect and Jinxiang dialect, has also borrowed some influences from Wu Chinese, such as voiced initials (z) and noun suffixes unique to Wu Chinese (such as 头).
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