Hainanese (linguistics)
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| Hainanese 海南話 |
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| Spoken in: | China, United States (California), Taiwan,Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong | |
| Region: | Hainan | |
| Total speakers: | 1.1 million | |
| Language family: | Sino-Tibetan Chinese Min Min Nan Hainanese |
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | zh | |
| ISO 639-2: | chi (B) | (T) |
| ISO 639-3: | – | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. | ||
Hainanese (海南話) or Qiongwen (琼文) is a variant of the Min Nan group of Chinese spoken in the southern Chinese island province of Hainan. Hainanese can sometimes mean the language of the Li people living in the southern coast of Hainan but Hainanese generally means the spoken language of the Han Chinese in Hainan. Hainanese is mutually unintelligible with any other variants of the Min Nan dialects including, but not limited to, Hokkien, Teochew, Taiwanese.
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