Min dialect

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Noun1.Min dialect - any of the forms of Chinese spoken in Fukien provinceMin dialect - any of the forms of Chinese spoken in Fukien province
Amoy, Fukien, Fukkianese, Hokkianese, Min, Taiwanese
Chinese - any of the Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in China; regarded as dialects of a single language (even though they are mutually unintelligible) because they share an ideographic writing system
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There they retained elements of their Min dialect and adhered to time-honored traditions, including that of bringing in brides from the mother's or sister-in-law's family or from an aunt's or a grandmother's village.
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Programs in Mandarin, Cantonese, English and Min dialect, prevalent in Taiwan and Fujian province, began service Feb.
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Longyan's /[kat.sup.8]/ is not matched by data in any other Min dialect I have examined, and it would seem to be more conservative than Amoy and Teochew /[ka.sup.1]/.
Common Chinese and early Chinese morphology
The first is the more common form, found in several dialect groups, from the northern and southwestern Mandarin groups to the Wu, Yue, and Min dialect groups.
The interrogatives employed in Honglou meng and their bearing on the problem of authorship
On the same page, we also find a disconcerting passage with a series of problems, one with agreement in number and then one in referent: "It is reasonable to say that most modern Chinese dialects can be regarded as a descendant of Middle Chinese, although some features of certain dialects, such as the Min dialects, are actually older than Middle Chinese." Dialects are "a descendant"?
A History of the Chinese Language
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