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Name: Chinese, Min Nan
Alternate Names: Min Nan Chinese; Min Dialect Family; Min Nan; Minnan; Southern Min; Min
Spoken in: USA, Malaysia, China, Singapore, Philippines, Taiwan, Brunei, Thailand, Indonesia
Number of speakers: 25,700,000 in China (1984). 2.5% of the population, including 1,000,000 Xiamen dialect (1988 census), 6,000,000 Quanzhou dialect (Quanzhoushi Fangyan Zhi). Population total all countries: 47,265,100 (Ethnologue)
Code: nan
Code Authority: ISO 639-3
Code Standard: SIL
Families: Sino-Tibetan
Parent Subgroup: Min (minn)
Child Dialect Groups: Xiamen; Amoy (nan-xia) Hainanese; Hainan; Hainan Island (nan-han) Chao-Shan; Choushan; Chaozhou; Ch'ao Shan (nan-cha)
Child Dialects: Fukienese (nan-fuk) Chaozhou; Chaochow; Tiuchiu; Teochow; Techu (nan-chz) Hokkien; Fukienese; Fujian; Amoy; Xiamen (nan-hok) Teochew; Chaochow; Chaozhou; Taechew (nan-teo) Zhenan Min; Southern Chekiang (nan-zhe) Longdu (nan-lon) Leizhou; Lei Hua; Li Hua (nan-lei) Chaochow; Tiu Chiu; Ch'aochou (nan-cho) Hainan; Hainanese; Qiongwen Hua; Wenchang (nan-hai)

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