Hinghwa
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Hinghwa (兴化話) or Putian (莆田話) is a Chinese dialect. It is one of the two variants of the Pu-Xian subdivision of the Min group of Chinese, and it is spoken in the east central Fujian province of southern China.
According to the Ethnologue, speakers approximate 2.5 millions in China, over 66,000 in Malaysia and just over 14,000 in Singapore.
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| Subcategories of Mandarin: | Northeastern | Beijing | Ji-Lu | Jiao-Liao | Zhongyuan | Lan-Yin | Southwestern | Jianghuai | Dungan | |||
| Subcategories of Min: | Min Bei | Min Nan | |||
| Min Dong | Min Zhong | Hainanese | Puxian | | Shaojiang | ||||
| Comprehensive list of Chinese dialects | ||||
| Official spoken varieties: | Standard Mandarin | Standard Cantonese | |||
| Historical phonology: | Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Proto-Min | Proto-Mandarin | Haner | |||
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| Official written varieties: | Classical Chinese | Vernacular Chinese | |||
| Other varieties: | Written Vernacular Cantonese | |||
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