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	Min Nan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Min Nan, Minnan, or Min-nan (Simplified Chinese: 闽南语; Traditional Chinese: 閩南語; pinyin: Mǐnnányǔ; POJ: Bân-lâm-gú; "Southern Min" or "Southern Fujian" language) or Hokkien is the Chinese language/dialect spoken in southern Fujian province, China and neighboring areas, and by descendants of emigrants from these areas in diaspora.
		Min Nan is mutually intelligible with neither Northern Min, Cantonese, nor Mandarin, the official Chinese language, spoken (at least as a second language) by the majority of those in mainland China and Taiwan, as well as large numbers of overseas Chinese.
		Min Nan is reportedly the native language of up to 98.5% of the community of ethnic Chinese in the Philippines, among whom it is also known as Lan-nang or Lán-lâng-oē ("Our people’s language").
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Min-nan (1141 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Min Nan
		Min Nan, Minnan, or Min-nan (POJ: Bân-lâm-gú; "Southern Min" or "Southern Fujian" language) refers to a family of Chinese languages/dialects which are spoken in southern Fujian and neighboring areas, and by descendants of emigrants from these areas in diaspora.
		Min Nan is spoken in the southern part of Fujian province, two southern counties of Zhejiang province, the Zhoushan archipelago off Ningbo in Zhejiang, and the eastern part of Guangdong province (Chaoshan region).
		The Xiamen accent is a hybrid of the Quanzhou and Zhangzhou accents.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Hokkien_(dialect) (1569 words)

	Ethnologue: China
		Southern Guangnan and northern Xichou counties in southeastern Yunnan Province, Laowalong, Xinwalong, Jiuping, Shibeipo, Xinzhai, Manlong, and Nala villages.
		(SOUTHERN MIN, MINNAN) [CFR] 25,725,000 in mainland China (1984); 2.5% of the population; 14,177,800 in Taiwan; 1,948,581 in Malaysia; 1,170,000 in Singapore; 1,081,920 in Thailand; 700,000 in Indonesia; 540,000 in Hongkong; 493,500 in Philippines; 10,000 in Brunei; 49,000,000 in all countries (1991 WA).
		Daozhen and Wuchuan counties, Anshun and Bijie prefectures of southwest Guizhou province, southern Yunnan (Zhuang-Miao Autonomous District at Maguan, Malipo, and nearby counties), Guangxi (Longlin Pan-Nationalities Autonomous County), and Hunan.
	www.christusrex.org /www1/pater/ethno/Chin.html (11262 words)

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		In common parlance, Min Nan usually refers to Xiamen speech (better known as the Amoy language/dialect), which is usually called Taiwanese by residents of Taiwan, and Hokkien by residents of Southeast Asia.
		Min Nan is reportedly the native language of up to 98.5% of the community of ethnic Chinese in the Philippines, among whom it is also known as Lan-nang or LÃ¡n-lÃ¢ng-oÄ“ ("Our people's language").
		In general, Min Nan variants have seven to eight tones, and tone sandhi is extensive.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Southern_Min (1504 words)

	Min (linguistics) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		For example, Min is the dominant Chinese dialect spoken by the Chinese minority in the Philippines.
		More complex division is suggested by SIL: Northern Min (Min-Bei, around Jian'ou in Fujian), Central Min (Min-Zhong, around Shaxian, Sanming), Eastern Min (Min-Dong in Fuzhou), Xinghua (in Puxian and Xianyou counties) and Southern Min (Min-Nan, in Zhangzhou, Quanzhou, Xiamen).
		The Southern Min language in Taiwan is known as Hō-ló-oē, in Guangdong as Hoklo, in Hainan as Qiongzhou hua.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Min_(linguistics) (274 words)

	Min Nan - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Mǐn Nán (Chinese: 閩南語), also spelt as Minnan or Min-nan; native name Bân-lâm-gú; literally means "Southern Min" or "Southern Fujian" and refers to the local language/dialect of southern Fujian province, China.
		However, Min Nan, Northern Min and Mandarin (the Chinese official dialect) are not mutually intelligible.
		Min Nan is spoken in the southern part of the southeastern Chinese province of Fujian as well as by descendents of migrants from this province in Taiwan, Guangdong (around Chaozhou-Swatou, and Leizhou peninsula), Hainan, two counties in southern Zhejiang and Zhoushan archipelago offshore Ningbo.
	open-encyclopedia.com /Min-nan (447 words)

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		Min is typically divided, on the basis of mutual unintelligibility, into Min Bei (northern Min), Min Nan (southern Min), and other sub-groups.
		Min Bei is centered around the city of Fuzhou, capital of Fujian province (though this variant is also classed by some as Min Dong, Eastern Min), while Min Nan is dominant in most other locations.
		Min Nan is the dominant Chinese dialect spoken by the Chinese minority in the Philippines, known as Lan-nang.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Min_(linguistics) (314 words)

	Min Nan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Southern Min and its counterpart Northern Min (Min Bei) can be grouped together as the Min language group.
		As Xiamen (Amoy) is the principal city of southern Fujian, its dialect is considered the most important variant.
		The variants spoken in Taiwan, though similar to the three southern Fujian variants, are grouped separately, and collectively known as Taiwanese.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/M/Min-Nan.htm (549 words)

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		The use of some basic vocabularies in Modern Min is in fact a continuation from the Jiangdong dialect of the Southern Dynasties.
		study the morpheme hoo in the Southern Min dialect spoken in Taiwan, a marker that occurs in the causative, the passive, and the so-called double-object, dative and serial-verb constructions.
		In Mandarin, the most equivalent word to the Min morpheme hoo is gei, which is not used in the causative at all.
	socrates.berkeley.edu:7057 /~jcl2/Ting.htm (1887 words)

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	Min Nan -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Southern Min and its counterpart Northern Min can be grouped together as the (Any of the forms of Chinese spoken in Fukien province) Min language group.
		There are many Min Nan speakers also among (Click link for more info and facts about overseas Chinese) overseas Chinese in (A geographical division of Asia that includes Indochina plus Indonesia and the Philippines and Singapore) Southeast Asia.
		The variants spoken in (A government on the island of Taiwan established in 1949 by Chiang Kai-shek after the conquest of mainland China by the communists led by Mao Zedong) Taiwan, though similar to the three southern Fujian variants, are grouped separately, and collectively known as (A native or inhabitant of Taiwan) Taiwanese.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/m/mi/min_nan.htm (626 words)

	History of the Hokkien People (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		In Taiwan it is the heart language of two-thirds of the population, where it is commonly known as Taiwanese.
		In these countries it is more commonly known as Hokkien, a term that is simply the Southern Min pronunciation of Fujian, the province in Southern China where the language originates.
		Southern Min is the most widely spoken of the dialects that emerged from China’s Fujian province.
	www.hokkien.org /history.htm (686 words)

	Southern Min (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Southern Min (閩南話) is a Sinitic language spoken by 38,950,000 speakers, approximately 4% of the 1 billion speakers of Sinitic.
		In no contemporary Southern Min community is the language a national language or a language of education, but in many Southern Min-speaking communities the language has high social value as a marker of in-group status (Oetomo 1988:103).
		I draw on data collected in three Southern Min-speaking communities in which I have done participant-observation fieldwork: Penang, Malaysia; Tainan, Taiwan, and Xiamen (Amoy), the People's Republic of China, focusing in particular on the political importance of Southern Min in Tainan.
	spp.pinyin.info /abstracts/spp025_minnan.html (259 words)

	Learn Taiwanese (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		This section of the website on Taiwanese Southern Min is not only designed for language learners who wish to study some Taiwanese, but also as a reference guide to the Taiwanese language.
		Most importantly there is a split between northern and southern dialects; so much is the divergence that communication in Min between the two areas is difficult enough that they are considered two separate languages.
		There are two varieties of "standard" Southern Min speech from this area, which may be called "accents" because of a slight variation in one or two vowels and consonants that does not impede comprehension in the least.
	www.glossika.com /en/dict/taiwanese/foreword.htm (947 words)

	Phrasebase - Min Language Facts And Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		MIN DONG: Area from Fu'an in northeastern Fujian to Fuzhou in east central Fujian.
		MIN BEI: 10,290,000 1.2% of the population (1984).
		MIN ZHONG: Speakers are reported to be adequately bilingual in Standard Chinese to use that literature.
	www.phrasebase.com /languages/index.php?cat=198 (442 words)

	Ethnologue: China
		Northeastern Guangxi in Quanzhou, Gongcheng, and Guanyang counties, and in the southern Hunan counties Lingling and Daoxian.
		Southern Hainan, villages of Huixin and Huihui in the Yanglan suburban district of Sanya City.
		Southwest Guangxi and southern Wenshan Zhuang-Miao Autonomous Prefecture of southeastern Yunnan Province.
	nacrp.cic.sfu.ca /nacrp/articles/minority.html (13187 words)

	Min Chinese : Min dialect
		Min (閩方言 in pinyin: min3 fang1 yan2) is a general term for a group of dialects of the Chinese language spoken in the southeastern Chinese province of Fujian as well as by migrants from this province in Taiwan, Guangdong (around Chaozhou-Swatou[?], and Leizhou[?] peninsula), Hainan, two counties in southern Zhejiang and Zhoushan archipelago[?] offshore Ningbo.
		Some researches tend to divide the Min group into Northern Min and Southern Min subgroups with Fuzhou and Xiamen (Amoy) dialects being paramount.
		The Southern Min language in Taiwan is known as Hō-ló-oē;, in Guangdong as Hoklo, in Hainan as Qiongzhou hua.
	www.termsdefined.net /mi/min-dialect.html (472 words)

	Min languages (from Chinese languages) -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The most important Min language is Amoy from the Southern branch of Min.
		The Min languages are divided into Northern Min, with its centre at Foochow, and Southern Min, with its centre at Amoy.
		Min speakers use a pronunciation (called T'ang Min) for the literary language that differs from the one used in other Chinese languages.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-75032?tocId=75032 (779 words)

	Min-nan - InfoSearchPoint.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Min-nan (閩南(語); native name Bân-lâm(-gú); (sometimes Hokkien or Hok-kiàn especially in Southeast Asia) literally means "Southern Min" or "Southern Fujian" and refers to the local language/dialect of southern Fujian province, China.
		However, Min-nan, Northern Min and Mandarin (the Chinese official dialect) are not mutually intelligible.
		Min-nan is spoken in the southern part of the southeastern Chinese of Fujian as well as by migrants from this province in Taiwan, Guangdong (around Chaozhou-Swatou, and Leizhou peninsula), Hainan, two counties in southern Zhejiang and Zhoushan archipelago offshore Ningbo.
	www.infosearchpoint.com /display/Minnan (305 words)

	Fujian: My Home Province (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Min became an important supplier of food to the Southern Song, with rice, sugar, fruit and tea being the principal crops.
		Most inhabitants speak Min Chinese (sometimes called Fukienese), which is divided into three main dialects: Fuzhou dialect spoken in the north and east, Xiamen dialect in the south, and Henghua dialect in the middle of the province.
		The Southern Min culture of the Xiamen-Quanzhou-Zhangzhou region is considered to be more adventurous and entrepreneurial, and has been influenced by Southeast Asia through continuing contact with the descendants of Southern Min natives who emigrated there over the last 300 years.
	www.magma.ca /~mtooker/cities/fujian.htm (1211 words)

	Administration and Faculty (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		BMED., University of Southern Mississippi, 1979; M.Div., Nazarene Theological Seminary, 1984; D.Min., Nazarene Theological Seminary, 1997.
		B.A., Southern Nazarene University, 1958; M.Div., Nazarene Theological Seminary, 1961; M.R.E., Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, 1969; G.S.R.E. and Ed.D., Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 1971 and 1978.
		A.B., Southern Nazarene University, 1968; M.Div., Nazarene Theological Seminary, 1972; M.R.E., Nazarene Theological Seminary, 1979; D.Min., Denver Seminary, 1986.
	www.nbc.edu /academics/NBC_admin.html (1782 words)

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		Mǐn Nán (Chinese: 閩南語), also spelt as Minnan or Min-nan; native name Bân-lâm-gú; literally means "Southern Min" or "Southern Fujian" and refers to the local language/dialect of southern
		Min Nan is spoken in the southern part of the southeastern Chinese province of
		Min Nan retains seven of the eight Middle Chinese
	en-cyclopedia.com /wiki/Min-nan (359 words)

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