Hainanese
| Hainanese | |
|---|---|
| Qiongwen, Hainan Min | |
| 海南話, Hhai3 nam2 ue1, Hái-nâm-oe | |
| Pronunciation | [hai˨˩˧ nam˨˩ ue˨˧] (Haikou dialect) |
| Native to | China, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand |
| Region | Hainan |
| Ethnicity | Hainanese (Han Chinese subgroup) |
Native speakers | Around 5 million in China (2002) |
Sino-Tibetan
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Early forms | |
| Dialects | |
| Chinese characters Hainan Romanized | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | hnm |
| Glottolog | hain1238 |
| Linguasphere | 79-AAA-k |
Hainanese | |
Varieties of the Hainanese spoken in Hainan. | |
Hainanese is a variety of Min Chinese spoken in the island of Hainan and regional overseas Chinese communities.
In the classification by Yuan Jiahua, it was added to the Southern Min group by him despite being mutually unintelligible with Southern Min varieties such as Hokkien and Teochew. In the classification of Li Rong, used by the Language Atlas of China, it was treated as a separate Min subgroup. Hou Jingyi combined it with Leizhou Min, spoken on the Leizhou Peninsula, in a Qiong–Lei group. "Hainanese" is also used for the language of the Li people living in Hainan, but generally refers to Min varieties spoken in Hainan.