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Hainanese (linguistics)
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| Hainanese 海南話 |
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| Spoken in: | China, United States (California), Taiwan, Singapore, Hong Kong | |
| Region: | Hainan | |
| Total speakers: | 1.1 million | |
| Language family: | Sino-Tibetan Chinese Min Min Nan Hainanese |
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | zh | |
| ISO 639-2: | chi (B) | (T) |
| ISO 639-3: | — | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. | ||
Hainanese (海南話) or Qiongwen (琼文片) is a variant of the Min Nan group of Chinese spoken in the southern Chinese island province of Hainan. Hainanese can sometimes mean the language of the Li people living in the southern coast of Hainan but Hainanese generally means the spoken language of the Han Chinese in Hainan.
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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 | |||
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| Official written varieties: | Classical Chinese | Vernacular Chinese | |||
| Other varieties: | Written Vernacular Cantonese | |||
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