Northern Min

Northern Min
Min Bei
MĂąing-bằ-ngáčłÌŒ/é–©ćŒ—èȘž
Native to Southern China, United States (mostly California)
Region northwestern & central Fujian; Nanping
Native speakers
11 million  (2007)[1]
Dialects
Chinese character
Kienning Colloquial Romanized (Jian'ou Romanized)
Language codes
ISO 639-3 mnp
Glottolog minb1244[2]

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Min Bei (red)

Min-Bei, or Northern Min (simplified Chinese: é—œćŒ—; traditional Chinese: é–©ćŒ—; pinyin: Mǐnběi), 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 (石陂, in Pucheng County), Chong'an (殇漉, in Wuyishan City), Xingtian (慮田, in Wuyishan City), Wufu (äș”怫, in Wuyishan City), Zhenghe (in Zhenghe County), Zhenqian (镇才, 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

  1. ↑ Nationalencyklopedin "VĂ€rldens 100 största sprĂ„k 2007" The World's 100 Largest Languages in 2007
  2. ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Min Bei Chinese". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Zev Handel (2003). "Northern Min Tone Values and the Reconstruction of Softened Initials" (PDF). Language and Linguistics 4 (1): 47–84. Retrieved February 16, 2011.
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