Min Bei
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| Northern Min | |
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| Min Bei 闽北语 |
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| Spoken in | Southern China, United States (mostly California) |
| Region | northwestern & central Fujian; Nanping |
| Native speakers | 10.3 million (1984) (no recent data available) |
| Language family |
Sino-Tibetan
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| Dialects | |
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| ISO 639-3 | mnp |
The Min-Bei language, or Northern Min (simplified Chinese: 闽北; traditional Chinese: 閩北; pinyin: Mǐnběi) is a collection of dialects of Min spoken in Nanping Prefecture of northwestern Fujian which, apart from Shao-Jiang Min, are mutually intelligible.
The Chinese languages of Fujian province were traditionally divided into Min-Bei (Northern) and Min-Nan (Southern). However, dialectologists now divide Min more finely.[1] By this narrower definition, Northern Min covers the dialects of Shibei (in Pucheng County), Chong'an (in Wuyishan City), Xingtian (in Wuyishan City), Wufu (in Wuyishan City), Zhenghe (in Zhenghe County), Zhengqian (in Zhenghe County), Jianyang and Jian'ou.[1]
[edit] Dialects
The dialects of eastern Nanping are sometimes split off as a separate division of Min, Shao-Jiang.
[edit] References
- ^ a b Zev Handel (2003). "Northern Min Tone Values and the Reconstruction of Softened Initials" (PDF). Language and Linguistics 4 (1): 47–84. http://intranet.ling.sinica.edu.tw/eip/FILES/journal/2007.3.9.9267824.79555112.pdf. Retrieved February 16, 2011.
- Branner, David Prager (2000). Problems in Comparative Chinese Dialectology — the Classification of Miin and Hakka. Trends in Linguistics series, no. 123. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. ISBN 31-101-5831-0.
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