Eastern Min or Min Dong (traditional Chinese: 閩東語; simplified Chinese: 闽东语; pinyin: Mǐndōngyǔ, Foochow Romanized: Mìng-dĕ̤ng-ngṳ̄) is a branch of the Min...

decline in the use of Min Chinese. Communities speaking Eastern Min, Pu-Xian Min, Haklau Min, Leizhou Min, and Hainanese can also be found in parts of the Chinese...

branch of Min Chinese spoken in Fujian (especially the Minnan region), most of Taiwan (many citizens are descendants of settlers from Fujian), Eastern Guangdong...

Teo-Swa (or Chaoshan), is a Southern Min language spoken by the Teochew people in the Chaoshan region of eastern Guangdong and by their diaspora around...

of the language group Min Chinese were most commonly spoken within the province, including the Fuzhou dialect and Eastern Min of Northeastern Fujian...

Foochowese, Hokchew, Hokchia, Hokchiu, Fuzhou Shiyi people (福州十邑人), Eastern Min or Mindong are residents of either Fuzhou and Mindong regions and the...

branch of Min Chinese. Pu-Xian is a transitional variety of Coastal Min which shares characteristics with both Eastern Min and Southern Min, although...

The Eastern Min Wikipedia (Foochow Romanized: Bànguâpedia) is the Mindong Chinese edition of Wikipedia, run by the Wikimedia Foundation. The project was...

minorities. Min Bei people 閩北人 (Northern Min) Fuzhou people 福州人 (Eastern Min) Putian people 莆田人 (Pu-Xian Min) Hokkien people 閩南人 (Hokkien Southern Min) Teochew...

Hong Kong, and Vietnam), also called Tin Hau in Cantonese, Thean Hou in Min Chinese and Thiên Hậu in Vietnamese (Chinese: 天后; lit. 'Queen/Empress of...

Malaysia today, usually in a derogatory sense. Among Taiwanese, Tang mountain (Min-Nan: Tng-soa) has been used, for example, in the saying, "has Tangshan father...

members of Eastern Lightning in central China, and as many as 1000 from other provinces of China. Chinese authorities also claimed that a certain Min Yongjun...

Min (Chinese: 閩; pinyin: Mǐn) was a dynastic state of China and one of the Ten Kingdoms in existence between the years of 909 and 945. It existed in a...

Mandarin with 66%, or around 800 million speakers, followed by Min (75 million, e.g. Southern Min), Wu (74 million, e.g. Shanghainese), and Yue (68 million...

Fuzhounese, is the prestige variety of the Eastern Min branch of Min Chinese spoken mainly in the Mindong region of Eastern Fujian Province. As it is mutually...

clusters or minor syllables. Fujian The Min homeland consists of most of the province of Fujian, and the adjacent eastern part of Guangdong. The area features...

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...

branches also present in Fujian such as the Fuzhou language (Eastern Min), Pu-Xian Min, Northern Min, Gan Chinese or Hakka. The term Hokkien was first used...

phonological regularity. The Min dialects showed high divergence, with Min Fuzhou (Eastern Min) grouped only weakly with the Southern Min dialects of Xiamen and...

Philippines, the area is called Mínlúnluò Qū 岷倫洛區, literally meaning the "Mín and Luò Rivers confluence district" but is actually a transliteration of...

The Matsu dialect (Eastern Min: Mā-cū-uâ / 馬祖話) is the local dialect of Matsu Islands, Taiwan. Native speakers also call it Bàng-huâ (平話), meaning the...

is one of the official languages of Lienchiang County. Previously the Eastern Min varieties in the Matsu Islands were seen as a part of general Fujian...

including Central Min, Eastern Min, Northern Min and Puxian Min. Datian Min developed from Hokkien, a dialect of Southern Min. Before the year 1535, this...

000 ethnic Tibetan Muslims and 700 ethnic Tibetan Catholics in the TAR.» Min Junqing. The Present Situation and Characteristics of Contemporary Islam...

another wave of northerners to immigrate to the modern-day Northern Min and Eastern Min areas. In 879, a large part of the city was captured by the army...

the term Northern Min to inland dialects of Nanping prefecture, and classified the coastal dialects of Fuzhou and Ningde as Eastern Min. According to the...

and the Cantonese speak Cantonese. However, Tanka living in Fujian speak Min Chinese. "Boat people" was a general term for the Tanka. The name Tanka was...

rivers except the Ting run into the Taiwan Strait. The largest two are the Min and the Jiulong.[citation needed] A theoretical "median line", also known...

descendants of the Immigrants from Dianbai. Eastern Min Army Language (Chinese: 军話) is a dialect of Eastern Min, spoken in Village of Yongan, East of Hepu...

雷州話 Haklau Min, 福佬話, 學佬話 Eastern Min, 闽东语, 閩東語 Pu-Xian Min, 莆仙话, 莆仙話 Northern Min, 闽北语, 閩北語 Central Min, 闽中语, 閩中語 Shao-Jiang Min, 邵将语, 邵將語 Bai, 白語 Dali...