Southern Min

Proper noun

Southern Min

1. A group of local languages of Min Chinese, which can trace their origins to southern Fujian province, China.
2. (broadly) Hokkien, including Amoy, Taiwanese Hokkien and other varieties in Southeast Asia.
   • To truly complete the journey and discover the roots of Taiwan’s southern Min majority one would have to travel to the P’eng-hu islands (Pescadores) and then still farther west to the shores of southern Fukien and the cities and towns along the province’s east-facing coast, which is where new...1999, Murray A. Rubinstein, editor, Taiwan: A New History, M.E. Sharpe, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page xi
   1. (Taiwan, broadly) the varieties of Hokkien spoken in mainland China, usually as opposed to Taiwanese Taigi spoken in Taiwan