Southern Min

Partial calque of Chinese 閩南／闽南 (mǐnnán).

Southern Min

1. A group of local languages of Min Chinese, which can trace their origins to southern Fujian province, China.
2. (loosely) Hokkien, including Amoy, Taiwanese Hokkien and other varieties in Southeast Asia.
   • 1999, Murray A. Rubinstein, editor, Taiwan: A New History‎, M.E. Sharpe, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page xi:

     To truly complete the journey and discover the roots of Taiwan’s southern Min majority one would have to travel to the P’eng-hu islands (Pescadores) and then still farther west to the shores of southern Fukien and the cities and towns along the province’s east-facing coast, which is where new history of Taiwan begins.

• (from Mandarin) Min Nan

• Hokkien
• Taiwanese

• Ethnologue entry for Southern Min, nan ⁠

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