| Southern Min | |
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| Minnan | |
| 閩南語 / 闽南语 | |
 Koa-a books, Minnan written in Chinese characters | |
| Country | Mainland China, Taiwan |
| Region | Fujian Province; the Chaozhou-Shantou (Chaoshan) area and Leizhou Peninsula in Guangdong Province; extreme south of Zhejiang Province; much of Hainan Province (if Hainanese or Qiongwen is included) and most of Taiwan as well as Penang, Melaka, Singapore and Sumatra |
| Ethnicity | Hoklo people Teochew people Hainanese people |
Speakers |
48 million (2020) |
Family |
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| Dialects | |
Writing |
Chinese characters, Latin |
| Area | South Fujian, Guangdong, south Hainan Island, south Zhejiang, south Jiangxi provinces. Xiamen in south Fujian, Jiangxi, and Taiwan; Hainan in Hainan; Leizhou on Leizhou peninsula of southwest Guangdong; Chao-Shan in far east corner of Guangdong in Chaozhou-Shantou area; Longdu is a dialect island around Zhongshan City and Shaxi in Guangdong south of Guangzhou; Zhenan Min in southeast Zhejiang Province around Pingyang and Cangnan and on Zhoushan archipelago of northeast Zhejiang. Also in Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia (Java and Bali), Malaysia (Peninsular), Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, United States. |
| Language Sites | |
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| ISO 639-3 | nan |
| Glottolog | minn1241 |
 Southern Min in China and Taiwan | |
 Subgroups of Southern Min in China and Taiwan | |
| Chinese name | |
| Simplified Chinese | 闽南语 |
| Traditional Chinese | 閩南語 |
| Literal meaning | "Language of Southern Min [Fujian]" |
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