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Etymology
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Partial calque of Chinese 閩南 / 闽南 ( mǐnnán ) .
Proper noun
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Southern Min
A group of local languages of Min Chinese , which can trace their origins to southern Fujian province, China .
( loosely ) Hokkien , including Amoy , Taiwanese Hokkien and other varieties in Southeast Asia .
1999 , Murray A. Rubinstein, editor, Taiwan: A New History [1] , M.E. Sharpe , →ISBN , →OCLC , →OL , page xi :To truly complete the journey and discover the roots of Taiwan’s southern Min majority one would have to travel to the P’eng-hu islands (Pescadores) and then still farther west to the shores of southern Fukien and the cities and towns along the province’s east-facing coast, which is where new history of Taiwan begins.
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the language
Chinese:
Cantonese: 閩南語 / 闽南语 ( man5 naam4 jyu5 ) , 閩南話 / 闽南话 ( man5 naam4 waa6-2 )
Hakka: 學老話 / 学老话 ( Ho̍k-ló-fa ) , 閩南話 / 闽南话 ( Mén-nàm-fa )
Hokkien: (Xiamen ) 閩南語 / 闽南语 (zh-min-nan) ( Bân-lâm-gú ) ; ( Zhangzhou ) 閩南語 / 闽南语 (zh-min-nan) ( Bân-lâm-gí )
Mandarin: 閩南語 / 闽南语 (zh) ( mǐnnányǔ ) , 閩南話 / 闽南话 (zh) ( Mǐnnánhuà )
Farefare: minnanne
French: Minnan m
German: Min Nan (de) n , Minnan (de) n
Indonesian: bahasa Hokkien (id)
Japanese: ミン南語 ( ミンなんご, minnango ) , 閩南語 (ja) ( binnango, minnango )
Khmer: មិងណាន ( ming nan ) , ត្បូងមិន ( tboungmɨn )
Korean: 민남어 ( minnameo )
Limburgish: Minnan n
Malay: please add this translation if you can
Portuguese: minnan m
Russian: миньна́нь m ( minʹnánʹ ) , южноми́ньский (ru) m ( južnomínʹskij )
Scots: Soothren Min
Spanish: min nan (es) m
Swedish: min nan (sv) , minnan , sydlig min
Thai: หมิ่นใต้
Vietnamese: tiếng Mân Nam
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