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MIN DIALECT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Min dialect mean?
• MIN DIALECT (noun)
The noun MIN DIALECT has 1 sense:
1. any of the forms of Chinese spoken in Fukien province
Familiarity information: MIN DIALECT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of the forms of Chinese spoken in Fukien province
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
Amoy; Fukien; Fukkianese; Hokkianese; Min; Min dialect; Taiwanese
Hypernyms ("Min dialect" is a kind of...):
Chinese (any of the Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in China; regarded as dialects of a single language (even though they are mutually unintelligible) because they share an ideographic writing system)
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