Hokkien
Hokkien /ˈhɒkiɛn/ nghĩa là tiếng Mân Nam, tiếng Phúc Kiến
Các nghĩa
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tiếng Mân Nam · tiếng Phúc Kiến
A linguistic subgroup of the Southern Min (Min Nan) branch, of the Min branch, of the Sinitic (Chinese) branch, of the Sino-Tibetan language family which is mainly spoken in the south-eastern part of mainland China (Fujian province), Taiwan, and people of Hoklo descent elsewhere in the world, like in Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines, Indonesia, Southern Thailand, Myanmar, Cambodia, Southern Vietnam, etc.
Almost 90 percent of Taiwan's 6 million occupants at the end of World War II spoke Hokkien.
Under colonial rule, learning or speaking my grandma’s native Hokkien, along with dozens of indigenous languages, was illegal by law.
For quotations using this term, see Citations:Hokkien.
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tiếng Mân Nam (ở Trung Quốc đại lục, phân biệt với tiếng Đài Loan)
The varieties of Hokkien spoken in mainland China, usually as opposed to Taiwanese Taigi spoken in Taiwan.
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người Mân Nam, người Phúc Kiến
A group of Han Chinese people whose traditional ancestral homes are in southern Fujian, South China, especially those that ancestrally spoke the Hokkien language.