Social:Central Min

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Short description: Language
Central Min
闽中语
Min Zhong
Native toSouthern China, United States (mainly California )
RegionYong'an, Sanming
Native speakers
3.65 million (2022)e26
Early form
Dialects
  • Sanming
  • Yong'an
  • Shaxian
Language codes
ISO 639-3czo
Glottologminz1235[1]
Linguasphere79-AAA-hb
Min dialect map.svg
  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

  1. ↑ 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. 
  2. ↑ 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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