1. Family: Sino-Tibetan
  2. Genus: Chinese

Hokkien

WALS coordinates: 25° N, 118° E

spoken in China

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Min (Southern)
Routledge:
  • Min (Southern) dialect (Minnan)
Other:
  • Chinese,
  • Chinese (Hokkien),
  • Hokkien Chinese
ISO 639-3:

Features

Feature Value References
Nominal Categories
Distributive Numerals No distributive numerals
Numeral Classifiers Optional
Nominal Syntax
Genitives, Adjectives and Relative Clauses Weakly differentiated
Adjectives without Nouns Marked by following word