Social:Central Min
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Short description: Language
| Central Min | |
|---|---|
| 闽中语 | |
| Min Zhong | |
| Native to | Southern China, United States (mainly California ) |
| Region | Yong'an, Sanming |
Native speakers | 3.65 million (2022)e26 |
Sino-Tibetan
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Early form | |
| Dialects |
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | czo |
| Glottolog | minz1235[1] |
| Linguasphere | 79-AAA-hb |
 Central Min | |
Central Min, or Min Zhong (simplified Chinese: 闽中语; traditional Chinese: 閩中語; pinyin: Mǐnzhōngyǔ), is a part of the Min group of varieties of Chinese. It is spoken in the valley of the Sha River in Sanming prefecture in the central mountain areas of Fujian, consisting of Yong'an, the urban area of Sanming (Sanyuan and Meilie districts) and Sha County.[2]
Dialects
- Sanming dialect
- Yong'an dialect
- Shaxian dialect
Notes
References
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Central Min test of Wikipedia at Wikimedia Incubator |
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds (2017). "Min Zhong Chinese". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/minz1235.
- ↑ Wurm, Stephen Adolphe; Li, Rong; Baumann, Theo; Lee, Mei W. (1987). Language Atlas of China. Longman. p. B-12. ISBN 978-962-359-085-3.
- "The initials of Proto-Min", Journal of Chinese Linguistics 2 (1): 27–36, 1974. (includes a description of the phonology of the Yong'an dialect)
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