Central Min
"Min Zhong" redirects here. For the town in Zhongshan, Guangdong, see Minzhong, Zhongshan. For present location of the Qin dynasty-era Minzhong prefecture, see Fuzhou. For Qing dynasty official, see Yu Minzhong.
Central Min | |
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闽中语 | |
Min Zhong | |
Native to | Southern China, United States (mainly California) |
Region | eastern Fujian; Fuzhou; Yong'an, Sanming |
Native speakers | 3.1 million (2000 census)[1] |
Sino-Tibetan
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Dialects | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 |
czo |
Glottolog |
minz1235 [2] |
Central Min |
Central Min, or Min Zhong (simplified Chinese: 闽中语; traditional Chinese: 閩中語; pinyin: Mǐnzhōngyǔ), is a part of the Min group of varieties of Chinese. It is spoken around Yong'an, Sanming and Sha located in the central mountain areas of Fujian. The total population of approximately 3 million native speakers, is the fourth most common subgroup of Min.
Dialects
References
- ↑ Central Min at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Min Zhong Chinese". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- Norman, Jerry (1974), "The initials of Proto-Min", Journal of Chinese Linguistics, 2 (1): 27–36, JSTOR 23749809. (includes a description of the phonology of the Yong'an dialect)
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