Hokkien
Sinitic language spoken in East Asia / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Hokkien (/ˈhɒkiɛn/ HOK-ee-en, US also /ˈhoʊkiɛn/ HOH-kee-en)[12] is a variety of the Southern Min languages, native to and originating from the Minnan region, in the southeastern part of Fujian in southeastern mainland China. It is also referred to as Quanzhang (Chinese: 泉漳; pinyin: Quánzhāng), from the first characters of the urban centers of Quanzhou and Zhangzhou.
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Traditional Chinese | 福建話 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 福建话 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hokkien POJ | Hok-kiàn-ōe / Hok-kiàn-ōa | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Traditional Chinese | 閩南話/閩南語 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 闽南话/闽南语 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hokkien POJ | Bân-lâm-ōe / Bân-lâm-ōa / Bân-lâm-gú / Bân-lâm-gí / Bân-lâm-gír | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Traditional Chinese | 福佬話 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 福佬话 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hokkien POJ | Ho̍h-ló-ōe / Hô-ló-ōe / Hō-ló-ōe | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Traditional Chinese | 咱人話/咱儂話 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 咱人话/咱侬话 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hokkien POJ | Lán-lâng-ōe / Lán-nâng-ōe / Nán-nâng-ōe | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Taiwanese Hokkien is one of the national languages in Taiwan. Hokkien is also widely spoken within the overseas Chinese diaspora in Singapore, Malaysia, the Philippines, Indonesia, Cambodia, Myanmar, Hong Kong, Thailand, Brunei, Vietnam elsewhere across the world. Mutual intelligibility between Hokkien dialects varies, but they are still held together by ethnolinguistic identity.[6]
In maritime Southeast Asia, Hokkien historically served as the lingua franca amongst overseas Chinese communities of all dialects and subgroups, and it remains today as the most spoken variety of Chinese in the region, including in Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines, Indonesia, Brunei. This applied to a lesser extent to mainland Southeast Asia.[13] As a result of the significant influence and historical presence of its sizable overseas diaspora, certain considerable to ample amounts of Hokkien loanwords are also historically present in the languages it has had historical contact with in its sprachraum such as, English (Singapore, Malaysian, Philippine, Brunei), Tagalog/Filipino, Betawi (Jakarta Malay Creole), Indonesian, Malay (Malaysian, Singapore, Brunei), Mandarin (Taiwanese, Malaysian, Singapore, PRC), Cebuano Bisaya, Thai, Khmer, Burmese, Vietnamese, Spanish, Dutch, Japanese (e.g. Yilan Creole, etc.), Taiwanese Hakka, aboriginal Taiwanese languages (e.g. Kavalan, Sakizaya, Amis, etc.), other lowland Philippine languages (e.g. Kapampangan, Hiligaynon, Central Bikol, Ilocano, etc.), other languages of Indonesia (e.g. Javanese, etc.), languages in Borneo (e.g. Iban), etc. Hokkien Kelantan in northern Malaya of Malaysia and Hokaglish spoken sporadically across the Philippines, especially Metro Manila are also mixed languages with Hokkien as the base lexifier.