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ISO 639-3 · mnpmnp
Sino-Tibetan family
Northern Min
Northern Min is a language of the Min Chinese branch (Sino-Tibetan), spoken in China. Wikidata counts 11 m first-language speakers (2019). Wikidata describes it as “Chinese language”.
At a glance
- ISO 639-3
mnp- Glottocode
minb1244- Family
- Sino-Tibetan
- EGIDS
- 5 Developing
- Wikipedia
- 29 language editions
11 mfirst-language speakers
—second-language speakers
1countries
2scripts
2levels in the tree
5EGIDS level
Facts
| Name | Northern Min |
|---|---|
| Also called | Min Bei Chinese, Min Pei, Min Bei, Mâing-bă̤-ngṳ̌, Maing-ba |
| L1 speakers | 11,000,000 (2019) |
| Written in | Chinese characters, Latin script |
Vitality
EGIDS 5 Developing5
Stable. Spoken by all generations at home, with or without schooling — EGIDS 5 and 6a.
Other languages at this levelfamily tree
From Sino-Tibetan to Northern Min
The branches above Northern Min, top to bottom. Each node counts the languages of this index that belong to it.
where it is spoken
Map and countries
A distribution map from Wikimedia Commons, as linked from Wikidata; borders of language areas are approximate.
Also spoken in China
zhoChineseSino-Tibetan · 1.30 bncmnMandarin ChineseSino-Tibetan · 1.07 bn1 · NationalcmnStandard ChineseSino-Tibetan · 897.1 mporPortugueseIndo-European · 227.3 m1 · NationalpanPunjabiunclassified · 125 mSafewuuWu ChineseSino-Tibetan · 80.7 m5 · DevelopingvieVietnameseAustroasiatic · 76 m1 · NationalkorKoreanKoreanic · 73.2 m1 · NationalyueYue ChineseSino-Tibetan · 62.2 m2 · ProvincialnanSouthern MinSino-Tibetan · 48.3 m6a · Vigorous