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- Sino-Tibetan
- Coastal Min
- Southern Min
ISO 639-3 · nannan
Sino-Tibetan family
Southern Min
閩南語
Southern Min is a language of the Coastal Min branch (Sino-Tibetan), spoken in Brunei, Cambodia, China and Taiwan and 4 more countries. Wikidata counts 50.1 m first-language speakers (2019). Wikidata describes it as “branch of the Min Chinese language”.
At a glance
- ISO 639-3
nan- Glottocode
minn1241- Family
- Sino-Tibetan
- EGIDS
- 6a Vigorous
- Centre point
- 25.00, 118.00
- Wikipedia
- 69 language editions
50.1 mfirst-language speakers
—second-language speakers
8countries
3scripts
3levels in the tree
6aEGIDS level
Facts
| Name | Southern Min · 閩南語 |
|---|---|
| Also called | Min Nan Chinese, Min Nan, Minnan, Banlam, Banlamgu |
| L1 speakers | 50,100,000 (2019) |
| All speakers | 48,339,200 |
| Written in | Pe̍h-ōe-jī, Chinese characters, Taiwanese Taigi Romanization System |
Vitality
EGIDS 6a Vigorous6a
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 Southern Min
The branches above Southern Min, top to bottom. Each node counts the languages of this index that belong to it.
where it is spoken
Countries
Also spoken in Brunei
engEnglishIndo-European · 1.13 bn0 · InternationalcmnMandarin ChineseSino-Tibetan · 1.07 bn1 · NationalcmnStandard ChineseSino-Tibetan · 897.1 mmsaMalayAustronesian · 77 myueYue ChineseSino-Tibetan · 62.2 m2 · ProvincialhakHakka ChineseSino-Tibetan · 48.2 m5 · DevelopingayhHadhrami ArabicAfroasiatic · 4.5 m6a · VigorousibaIbanAustronesian · 2.3 m3 · Wider CommunicationkxdBrunei MalayAustronesian3 · Wider CommunicationttgTutongAustronesian6b · Threatened