Min Dong
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- This article is about Min Dong Language, a kind of Chinese dialect. In other context, "Min Dong" might as well mean the eastern area of Fujian Province, China, where Fuzhou and Ningde are located.
| Min Dong 閩東話, 平話 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Spoken in: | Southern China, Vietnam, United States (chiefly California and New York) | |
| Region: | eastern Fujian (Fuzhou and Ningde) | |
| Total speakers: | 9.1 million | |
| Language family: | Sino-Tibetan Chinese Min Min Dong | |
| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | zh | |
| ISO 639-2: | chi (B) | zho (T) |
| ISO 639-3: | cdo | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. | ||
Image:ChinaFujianFuzhou.png
Fuzhou, the center for the Min Dong language
Min Dong Language (or Eastern Min Language, simplified Chinese: 闽东语; traditional Chinese: 閩東語; pinyin: Mǐndōngyǔ; Foochow Romanized: Mìng-dĕ̤ng-ngṳ̄) is the language mainly spoken in the eastern part of Fujian Province in China, in and near Fuzhou and Ningde, the province's capital and largest city. Fuzhou dialect is considered the standard form of Min Dong.
The ISO 639-3 abbreviation for Min Dong, used by Wikipedia, is cdo.
[edit] External links
Min Dong edition of Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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| Subcategories of Mandarin: | Northeastern | Beijing | Ji-Lu | Jiao-Liao | Zhongyuan | Lan-Yin | Southwestern | Taiwanese | Jianghuai | Dungan | |||
| Subcategories of Min: | Min Bei | Min Dong | Min Nan | Min Zhong | Puxian | Qiong Wen | Shaojiang | |||
| Comprehensive list of Chinese dialects | Identification of the varieties of Chinese | ||||
| Historical phonology: | Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Proto-Min | Proto-Mandarin | Haner | |||
| Written varieties | ||||
| Official written varieties: | Classical Chinese | Vernacular Chinese | |||
| Other varieties: | Written Vernacular Cantonese | |||
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