Zhenan Min

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Zhenan Min
浙南闽语
Native toChina
RegionZhejiang
Native speakers
(undated figure of 570,000)
Early forms
Chinese characters
Language codes
ISO 639-3None (mis)
Glottologzhen1239
Linguasphere79-AAA-jb (transition to 79-AAA-h and -i)
  Zhenan Min

Zhenan Min (

Min Nan Chinese language spoken in the vicinity of Wenzhou, in the southeast of Zhejiang
province.

The Zhenan Min people had settled in areas such as

Southern Song dynasty, Ming dynasty and the Qing dynasty
periods.

Zhenan Min has in the past been influenced by

Wenzhou dialect and Jinxiang dialect, has also borrowed some influences from Wu Chinese, such as voiced initials (z
) and noun suffixes unique to Wu Chinese (such as 头).

Notes

  1. ^ Min is believed to have split from Old Chinese, rather than Middle Chinese like other varieties of Chinese.[1][2][3]

References

  1. JSTOR 2718766
  2. ISBN 978-0-7748-0192-8
  3. doi:10.5281/zenodo.7398962. Archived
    from the original on 2023-10-13. Retrieved 2023-10-13.

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