Hokkien

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. özel isim 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.

   “Almost 90 percent of Taiwan's 6 million occupants at the end of World War II spoke Hokkien.”

2. özel isim the varieties of Hokkien spoken in mainland China, usually as opposed to Taiwanese Taigi spoken in Taiwan.
3. özel isim A group of Han Chinese people whose traditional ancestral homes are in southern Fujian, South China, especially those that ancestrally spoke the Hokkien language.
4. özel isim Alternative form of Fujian.
5. sıfat Of or relating to the Fujianese people.
6. sıfat Of or relating to the Hokkien language and its dialects or variants.
7. sıfat Of or relating to the province of Fujian in China.