Medan Hokkien

Medan Hokkien
Medan Hokkien
棉蘭福建話
Native to	Indonesia
Region	Medan, Pematangsiantar, Tanjung Balai, Binjai and other cities in North Sumatra with significant chinese community.
Native speakers	800.000~1.000.000 (2010)[citation needed]
Language family	Sino-Tibetan Chinese Min Min Nan Hokkien Zhangzhou dialect Medan Hokkien; ; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Glottolog	None

Medan Hokkien is a local variant of Hokkien spoken in Medan, Indonesia. It is the lingua franca in Medan as well as other northern city states of North Sumatra surrounding it, and is a subdialect of Zhangzhou (漳州) dialect, together with widespread use of Indonesian and English borrowed words. It is predominantly a spoken dialect: it is rarely written in Chinese characters as Indonesia has banned the use of Chinese characters, and there is no standard romanisation.^{[citation needed]}