Alternate Names: Min Pei, Northern Min
Dialects: None known. The Chinese now divide Chinese Min into 5 major varieties: Min Nan ,, Min Bei ,, Min Dong ,, Min Zhong ,, and Pu-Xian ,. Others say there are at least 9 varieties which are inherently mutually unintelligible. A member of macrolanguage Chinese ,.
Status Notes: Language of recognized nationality: Han.
Genealogy:
Demographics: 10,300,000 in China (1984). Population total all countries: 10,304,000.
Language Use: All ages. Also use Mandarin Chinese [cmn].
Language Development: Literacy rate in L2: 91% (2000 census, Han nationality). Highly literate in Chinese and they use that literature. NT: 1934.
Typology: Tonal.
Writing System: Latin
Nation of Origin: China
Other Comments: Buddhist, Christian, Daoist.