Hokkien
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɒkiɛn/
ipa: /ˈhok.kjɛn/
ipa: /ˈhɑkiˌɛn/
ipa: /ˈhoʊkiˌɛn/
Forms: form: Hokkian
form: Hok Kian
form: Hok-kian
form: Hokien
form: Hukkien
form: Hokyen
form: Hok-kien
form: Hok-Kien
form: Hokkeen
form: Hok-keen
form: Hokkeën
form: Hokkëèn
Etymology: Borrowed from Hokkien 福建 (Hok-kiàn, “Fujian / Fukien”). Doublet of Fukien and Fujian.
Senses: examples: text: Almost 90 percent of Taiwan's 6 million occupants at the end of World War II spoke Hokkien.
ref: 2011, Shelley Rigger, Why Taiwan Matters: Small Island, Global Powerhouse, Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, →ISBN, page 28:
text: Because Hokkien is the most widely spoken local language (after Mandarin) in both Taiwan and Kinmen, this national language policy – when implemented in Kinmen – resulted in a different perceived language policy.
ref: 2020, Tsung-lun Alan Wan, “Language Revitalization and Perceived Language Shift: A Case of Kinmenese Hokkien”, in Jens Damm, Hauke Neddermann, editors, Intercultural Dialogue across Borders: China between Tradition and Modernity, Zürich: LIT Verlag, →ISBN, page 106:
text: Under colonial rule, learning or speaking my grandma’s native Hokkien, along with dozens of indigenous languages, was illegal by law.
ref: 2022 June 22, Zoe Yu, “Endangered Languages Are Worth Saving”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 Jun 2022, Student Editorial Contest Winner:
text: The awards celebrate not only Mandopop but also artists singing in Taiwanese - also known as Hokkien - Hakka and indigenous languages, a visible sign of the government's efforts to promote tongues other than Mandarin.
ref: 2023 July 2, Ben Blanchard, “Taiwan celebrates linguistic diversity at annual music awards”, in William Mallard, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 03 Jul 2023, Asia Pacific:
text: For quotations using this term, see Citations:Hokkien.
qualifier: chiefly Southeast Asia
glosses: A linguistic subgroup of the Southern Min (Min Nan) branch, of the Min branch, of the Sinitic (Chinese) branch, of the Sino-Tibetan language family which is mainly spoken in the south-eastern part of mainland China (Fujian province), Taiwan, and people of Hoklo descent elsewhere in the world, like in Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines, Indonesia, Southern Thailand, Myanmar, Cambodia, Southern Vietnam, etc.
qualifier: chiefly Southeast Asia
glosses: A linguistic subgroup of the Southern Min (Min Nan) branch, of the Min branch, of the Sinitic (Chinese) branch, of the Sino-Tibetan language family which is mainly spoken in the south-eastern part of mainland China (Fujian province), Taiwan, and people of Hoklo descent elsewhere in the world, like in Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines, Indonesia, Southern Thailand, Myanmar, Cambodia, Southern Vietnam, etc.
the varieties of Hokkien spoken in mainland China, usually as opposed to Taiwanese Taigi spoken in Taiwan
qualifier: chiefly Southeast Asia
glosses: A group of Han Chinese people whose traditional ancestral homes are in southern Fujian, South China, especially those that ancestrally spoke the Hokkien language.
glosses: Any person from Fujian.
Synonyms: Hoklo
Fukien
Fukienese
Fujianese
Hypernyms: Southern Min
Min Nan
Minnan
Minnanese
Quanzhou–Zhangzhou
Chinchew–Changchew
Hyponyms: Quanzhou dialect
Chinchew
Taiwanese
Xiamen dialect
Amoy
Xiamenese
Zhangzhou dialect
Chiangchew
Related terms: word: Fujian
sense: Other branches of Southern Min (limited mutual intelligibility)
english: Chaoshan Division
translation: Chaoshan Division
word: Teochew
sense: Other branches of Southern Min (limited mutual intelligibility)
word: Zhenan Min Division
sense: Other branches of Southern Min (limited mutual intelligibility)
word: Zhongshan Min Division
sense: Other branches of Southern Min (limited mutual intelligibility)
word: Qiongwen Division
sense: Other branches of Southern Min (limited mutual intelligibility)
word: Leizhou Min Division
sense: Other branches of Southern Min (limited mutual intelligibility)
word: Longyan Min Division