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|group      = Hoklo<br>河洛人 閩南人<br>福建人 
|population = Around 41.3 million (est. worldwide) <ref>http://www.ethnologue.com/ethno_docs/distribution.asp?by=size</ref>
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|pop1       = [[Fujian]] <br> [[Guangdong]] <br> [[Hainan]]
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|pop2       = Majority of [[Taiwanese_people|Taiwanese]]
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|languages  = [[Hokkien dialect]] of [[Minnan]] and [[Standard Mandarin]]. Diaspora also speak their respective home country's language(s)
|religions  = [[Mahayana Buddhism]], [[Taoism]], [[Confucianism]], [[non-religion]]
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[[File:Banlamgu.svg|thumb|right|300px|[[Minnan]]-speaking areas in [[Northern and southern China|South China]] and Taiwan. Only the speakers of [[Quanzhou Zhangzhou]] (also known as Hokkien) are seen as Hoklos.]]
The '''Hoklo People''' (Chinese:河洛人) are [[Han_Chinese|Han]] people whose traditional [[Ancestral home|Ancestral homes]] are in southern [[Fujian]] of [[China]]. They are also known by various [[endonym]] as ''Hok-ló'', ''Hō-ló'', or ''Ho̍h-ló'', or other related terms such as '''Min-nan people''' (閩南人） or '''Hokkiens''' (福建人）. 

In narrow perspective, the Hoklo people refers usually to people who speak and use the [[Hokkien]] dialect of [[Min Nan]] Chinese spoken in southern [[Fujian]], [[Taiwan]], and by many overseas Chinese throughout Southeast Asia. 

In wide perspective, the Hoklo people can include users of other [[Min Nan]] Chinese such as [[Zhongshan Min]], [[Zhenan Min]], [[Teochew dialect]], [[Hainanese]] etc<ref>Ben Sia，《新加坡的漢語方言》 (The Chinese Languages and Dialects of Singapore)，1988</ref>.

==Definition==

In general, the '''Hoklo people''' can refer to one of the following:

===Narrow Perspective===

====Taiwanese Hoklo====
{{main|Taiwanese Hoklo}}

In [[Taiwan]], the Hoklos are the largest ethnic group (see [[Demographics of Taiwan]]). Most Hoklos trace their paternal ancestry to male settlers who migrated to Taiwan from [[Fujian]] in the 17th and 18th centuries.

Because about 70% of the population in Taiwan are Hoklo, ''Taiwanese'' is often used interchangeably with ''Hoklo''. People who are aware of the multi-ethnic nature of Taiwan recognize the two are not identical, although most people will know by context when this word refers to people from Taiwan and when this word refers specifically to Hoklos.

===Wide Perspective===


==Chinese Characters for Hoklo==

In Taiwan, there are three common ways to write ''Hoklo'' in [[Chinese character]]s (Min Nan pronunciations are given in [[Pe̍h-ōe-jī|POJ]]):

* 福佬 (Hok-ló; lit. "Fujian person") &ndash; emphasizes their connection to Fujian province.
* 河洛 (Hô-lo̍k; lit. "[[Yellow River]] and [[Luo River]]") &ndash; emphasizes their purported long history originating from the area south of the Yellow River. This Han-character reading does not reflect the actual pronunciation in the southern-Chinese languages but only in [[Mandarin Chinese|Mandarin]]. It is likely a result of [[folk etymology]].
* 鶴佬 (Ho̍h-ló; lit. "crane person") &ndash; emphasizes the modern pronunciation of the characters (without regard to the meaning of the Chinese characters). This variant is used by the Chinese Wikipedia version of this article.

In [[Hakka Chinese|Hakka]], Hoklo may be written as 學老 (lit. "knowledge aged") and 學佬 (lit. "knowledge person"). 

Despite many ways to write ''Hoklo'' in Chinese, many Taiwanese will use the term Hō-ló to refer to the [[Taiwanese Minnan|language]] and Hoklo culture.

==See also==
* [[Demographics of Taiwan]]
* [[Taiwanese people]]
* [[Teochew people]]
* [[Hokkien]] (disambiguation)
* [[Hoklo]] (disambiguation)
* [[Lan-nang]]

==References==
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