Southern Minとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Partial calque of Chinese 閩南 / 闽南 (Mǐnnán).

固有名詞

Southern Min

1. A group of local languages of Min Chinese, which can trace their origins to southern Fujian province, China.
2. (loosely) Hokkien, including Amoy, Taiwanese Hokkien and other varieties in Southeast Asia.
   1. (chiefly Taiwan) the varieties of Hokkien spoken in mainland China, usually as opposed to Taiwanese Taigi spoken in Taiwan
   • 1999, Murray A. Rubinstein, editor, Taiwan: A New History‎, M.E. Sharpe, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page xi:

     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 history of Taiwan begins.

同意語

• (from Mandarin) Min Nan

参考

• Hokkien
• Taiwanese

Further reading

• Ethnologue entry for Southern Min, nan ⁠

アナグラム

• nourishment