Saturday, October 4, 2008

Qiongwen

Qiongwen or Hainanese is a branch of the Min Nan group of spoken in the southern island province of Hainan. "Hainanese" can sometimes mean the language of the Li people living in the southern coast of Hainan, but generally means the Qiongwen language of the Han Chinese in Hainan. It is mutually unintelligible with other Min Nan dialects, such as , , and Taiwanese.

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