English
Hokkien
Hokkien comes from Hokkien 福建 ‘Fujian / Fukien’.
- Hokkienmodern福建Hok-kiàn‘Fujian / Fukien’
- Englishearliest quotation 2011Hokkien
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Hokkienmodern福建Hok-kiàn‘Fujian / Fukien’
- Englishearliest quotation 2011Hokkien
Earliest quotation: 2011, Shelley Rigger, Why Taiwan Matters: Small Island: “Almost 90 percent of Taiwan's 6 million occupants at…”
Linked words
through Hokkien 福建 ‘Fujian / Fukien’
Today it means
name A linguistic subgroup of the Southern Min (Min Nan) branch, of the Min branch, of the Sinitic (Chinese) branch, of the Sino-Tibetan language family which is mainly spoken in the south-eastern part of mainland China (Fujian province), Taiwan, and people of Hoklo descent elsewhere in the world, like in Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines, Indonesia, Southern Thailand, Myanmar, Cambodia, Southern Vietna
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Hokkien 福建 / Hokkien