Teochew dialect
Min Nan texts, all Hokkien, can be dated back to the 16th century. One example is the "Doctrina Christiana en letra y lengua china", presumably written after 1587 by the Spanish Dominicans in the Philippines. Another is a Ming Dynasty script of a play called "Tale of the Lychee Mirror" (1566), supposedly the earliest Southern Min colloquial text, although it is written in Teochew dialect.