Min Nan Chinese: Xiamen (Speech variety #185)
| Speech Variety Code: | #185 |
| Speech Variety Name: | Min Nan Chinese: Xiamen |
| Status: | Verified |
| Registry Of Dialects (ROD) Code: | 00185 |
| ISO 639-3 Language Code: | nan |
| ISO 639-3 Language Name: | Min Nan Chinese |
| ISO Macrolanguage Name: | |
| Ethnologue 16th Edition Code: | nan |
| Ethnologue 16th Edition Name: | Chinese, Min Nan |
| GRN Name: | Amoy |
| Number of speakers: | |
| Other Information: | Zhenan Min. Xiamen has subdialects Amoy, Fujian (Fukien, Hokkian, Taiwanese). Amoy is the prestige dialect. Amoy and Taiwanese are easily intelligible to each other. |
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Alternate names for Min Nan Chinese: Xiamen
Fukien
Min Nam
Minnan
Min Nan
Southern Min
Xiamen
Where Min Nan Chinese: Xiamen is spoken
Brunei
China
Indonesia
Malaysia
Singapore
Taiwan
Thailand
Related speech varieties
There are 14 similar speech varieties that share the same ISO 639-3 language code:
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