粵

閩man5南naam4話waa2

simp闽南话
man5 naam4 waa2Mǐn nán huà

English

  1. Southern Min, a family of Sinitic languages spoken in southern Fujian and surrounding areas
  2. Hokkien, major variety of Southern Min
  3. Minnan language, Hokkien

粵語 — Cantonese

  1. 源自福建南部嘅其中一隻漢語,係福建南部、台灣同廣東部份地區嘅主要語言,喺港澳、星馬、印尼都有人講;主要用漢字同拉丁字母書寫,喺香港嘅東區等地區有唔少人使用

Examples

  • 闽语包括闽东话、闽南话、闽北话、闽中话和莆仙话。然而,这五种方言之间的互通性非常有限。

    Min consists of Eastern Min, Southern Min, Northern Min, Central Min and Pu-Xian Min. However, these five dialects have very limited mutual intelligibility.

    Tatoeba · jan_OkulaJu CC BY

  • 好多馬來西亞人識講閩南話。

    Many Malaysians speak Hokkien.

Sources: cc-cedict, rime-cantonese, words.hk

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