Northern Min
Northern Min | |
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Min Bei | |
MĂąing-bÄÌ€-ngáčłÌ/é©ćèȘ | |
Native to | Southern China, United States (mostly California) |
Region | northwestern & central Fujian; Nanping |
Native speakers | 11 million (2007)[1] |
Sino-Tibetan
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Dialects | |
Chinese character Kienning Colloquial Romanized (Jian'ou Romanized) | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 |
mnp |
Glottolog |
minb1244 [2] |
Min Bei (red) |
Min-Bei, or Northern Min (simplified Chinese: éœć; traditional Chinese: é©ć; pinyin: MÇnbÄi), is a collection of dialects of Min spoken in Nanping Prefecture of northwestern Fujian, which, apart from Shao-Jiang Min, are mutually intelligible.
The Chinese languages of Fujian province were traditionally divided into Min-Bei (Northern) and Min-Nan (Southern). However, dialectologists now divide Min more finely.[3] By this narrower definition, Northern Min covers the dialects of Shibei (çłé, in Pucheng County), Chong'an (ćŽćź, in Wuyishan City), Xingtian (ć Žç°, in Wuyishan City), Wufu (äș怫, in Wuyishan City), Zhenghe (in Zhenghe County), Zhenqian (éć, in Zhenghe County), Jianyang and Jian'ou.[3]
Dialects
The dialects of western Nanping are sometimes split off as a separate division of Min, Shao-Jiang.
References
- â Nationalencyklopedin "VĂ€rldens 100 största sprĂ„k 2007" The World's 100 Largest Languages in 2007
- â Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Min Bei Chinese". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
- â 3.0 3.1 Zev Handel (2003). "Northern Min Tone Values and the Reconstruction of Softened Initials" (PDF). Language and Linguistics 4 (1): 47â84. Retrieved February 16, 2011.
- Branner, David Prager (2000). Problems in Comparative Chinese Dialectology â the Classification of Miin and Hakka. Trends in Linguistics series, no. 123. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. ISBN 3-11-015831-0.
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