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    客家話 Min Chinese, 闽语, 閩語 Southern Min, 闽南语, 閩南語 Hokkien, 泉漳话, 泉漳話 Teochew Min, 潮州话, 潮州話 Hainanese, 海南话, 海南話 Leizhou Min, 雷州话, 雷州話 Hai Lok Hong Min, 海陆丰话...
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  • being brought in as a lingua franca. The Mandarin-speaking groups are the largest group in mainland China, but in the diaspora the Min, Hakka and Cantonese...
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    2006. Cantonese, a major Sinitic language originating in Guangzhou, is the lingua franca in Guangdong, Guangxi, Hong Kong, and Macau. Cantonese has the most...
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    Yue Chinese (redirect from Gwong dong waa)
    Zhuang and Dong. The port city of Guangzhou lies in the middle of Pearl River Delta, with access to the interior via the Xi, Bei, and Dong rivers, which...
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    The Min River (Chinese: 岷江; pinyin: Mínjiāng) is a 735-kilometer-long river (457 mi) in central Sichuan province, China. It is a tributary of the upper...
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  • Proto-Min (pMǐn) is a comparative reconstruction of the common ancestor of the Min group of Chinese languages. Min varieties developed in the relative...
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  • predicted to replace Cantonese as their lingua franca. Although Min Chinese or Fuzhounese, the majority of Min Chinese, is spoken natively by a third of...
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    national average. In Hainan, the lingua franca and language of prestige is referred to as Hainanese. Hainanese is a southern Min language, in the same family...
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    Hokkien (category Articles containing Min Nan Chinese-language text)
    They include the following examples, compared to the Fuzhou dialect, a Min Dong language: Loanwords are not unusual among Hokkien dialects, as speakers...
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    She people (category Pages with Min Dong Chinese IPA)
    She. In all, Jiangxi Province has 56 She villages in non-She townships. Dong, Bo (董波) (2008). 从东家人到畲族——贵州麻江县六堡村畲族的人类学考察 [From Dongjia to She] (M.A.)....
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    Archived 2019-10-25 at the Wayback Machine – An Arabic Transliteration Pad Lingua::Translit – Perl module covering a variety of writing systems e.g. Cyrillic...
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    migrant workers coming from other regions, Mandarin has gradually become a lingua franca. The west side of this region, along with Chaoshan, was also the...
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    "Writing-Mediated Interaction Face-to-Face: Sinitic Brushtalk (漢文筆談) as an Age-Old Lingua-Cultural Practice in Premodern East Asian Cross-Border Communication". China...
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  • Mexico Min – 閩語 or 闽语 Spoken in: the southeastern area of China Min Bei – 闽北语 Spoken in: the Chinese prefecture-level city of Nanping Min Dong – 閩東語 Spoken...
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  • from general lingua franca) such as yayan 'elegant speech' of the Qin Dynasty, and tongyu 'general speech' of the Han Dynasty etc. Jie, Dong (October 2010)...
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  • (2017), "Vowel purity and rhyme evidence in Old Chinese reconstruction", Lingua Sinica, 3 (5): 139–160, doi:10.1186/s40655-017-0021-8, hdl:11858/00-001M-0000-002D-8089-A...
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  • 1142/9789813239364_0001, ISBN 978-981-323-935-7 Li, Xiao-Yun; Su, Min; Huang, Hai-Hua; Li, Hui; Tian, Dong-Ping; Gao, Yu-Xia (2007). "mtDNA evidence: Genetic background...
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    22.1 million, Min Bei with 11 million, Min Dong with 10.3 million, Huizhou with 4.6 million, and Pu-Xian Min with 2.5 million. Below is a table of the...
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    in the construction of the complex irrigation system that prevented the Min River from flooding and irrigated the Chengdu Plain. In thanks for the prosperity...
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    a lingua franca between people of different linguistic backgrounds. In the autonomous regions of China, other languages may also serve as a lingua franca...
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    published in 2005 by François Grin, found that the use of English as the lingua franca within the European Union costs billions annually and significantly...
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  • Horbachova Oleksiy Kurban United Kingdom Big Brother Channel 4 S4C (1–10) TVN Lingua (2–4) Series 1, 2000: Craig Phillips Series 2, 2001: Brian Dowling Series...
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  • Contemporary Seoul Korean: A longitudinal case study". Lingua. 134: 62–74. doi:10.1016/j.lingua.2013.06.002. Kim, Mi-Ryoung (2013). "Tonogenesis in contemporary...
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    philosophy, science, and the arts. Literary Chinese became the written lingua franca for bureaucracy and communications, and Chinese characters became...
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  • much historical significance as a city, and its speech has held sway as a lingua franca. Being officially selected to form the basis of the phonology of...
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    the original on 13 August 2020. Retrieved 29 April 2017. Peng, Min-Sheng; He, Jun-Dong; Liu, Hai-Xin; Zhang, Ya-Ping (15 February 2011). "Tracing the...
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    Gelao dialects differ greatly from each other, Mandarin has been used as a lingua franca and is now the main language spoken by Gelaos. Hmong, Nuosu, and...
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    meritocracy and multiracialism as governing principles, making English the lingua franca to integrate its immigrant society and to facilitate trade with the...
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    phasa lao) Lao Laoo lo 4,473 36 Unknown date Lingua Franca Nova Wikipedia Vicipedia en lingua franca nova Lingua Franca Nova Latn lfn 4,459 32 18 April 2018...
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    (2013), pp. 166– Hall (2008), pp. 161–. Andaya (2006), pp. 23– He, Jun-Dong; Peng, Min-Sheng; Quang, Huy Ho; Dang, Khoa Pham; Trieu, An Vu; Wu, Shi-Fang;...
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