Hokkien dialect

Hokkien (Chinese福建 话/福建 话), also Chuanchew - Changchew (Chinese泉 漳 片/泉 漳 片) called, is a variant of originating from southern China Min Nan dialect, and is in Fujian Province, Taiwan and much of Southeast Asia spoken.

Geographical distribution

Hokkien originated in the southern Chinese province of Fujian, spread all over the South China Sea over large parts of Asia and is now the most widely spoken Chinese dialect in Southeast Asia. The ethnic group that uses Hokkien as their mother tongue, are the Hoklo, mainly locate in Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Indonesia, Burma, Thailand, Guangdong and Hong Kong.

In the Philippines Hokkien is the mother tongue of 98.5 % of the Philippine Chinese, the people named on high Feilübin Huaren Chinese and Tagalog Tsinoy. These account for 2 % of the population ( 1.5 million in 2007). You call the language Lan - Nang, " language of our people."

In Singapore, Hokkien speakers form with 70 % of the population, the absolute majority of the country and the largest contiguous group of speakers of this dialect.

  • Chinese languages
  • Tonal language
  • Fujian
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