Eastern Min Language
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- This article is about Eastern Min Language, a kind of Chinese dialect. "Min Dong" also refers to the eastern area of Fujian Province, China, where Fuzhou and Ningde are located.
| Eastern Min Language 閩東話 |
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| Spoken in: | Southern China, Vietnam, United States (chiefly California and New York) | |
| Region: | eastern Fujian (Fuzhou and Ningde) | |
| Total speakers: | 9.1 million | |
| Language family: | Sino-Tibetan Chinese Min Eastern Min Language |
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | zh | |
| ISO 639-2: | chi (B) | zho (T) |
| ISO 639-3: | cdo | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. | ||
Eastern Min Language (Chinese: Min Dong, simplified Chinese: 闽东语; traditional Chinese: 閩東語; pinyin: Mǐndōngyǔ; Foochow Romanized: Mìng-dĕ̤ng-ngṳ̄) is the language mainly spoken in the eastern part of Fujian Province in China, in and near Fuzhou and Ningde, the province's capital and largest city. Fuzhou dialect is considered the standard form of the Eastern Min Language.
The ISO 639-3 abbreviation for the Eastern Min Language, used by Wikipedia, is cdo.
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Eastern Min Language edition of Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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