![]() ![]() There are Non-Mandarin/Non-Cantonese Sinitic Languages spoken in some areas in Guangdong Province as well as Hainan island Province that are related to Min Nan / Quanzhang / Hokkien-Taiwanese such as Teochew (Chaoshan) Language spoken in Eastern Guangdong of Mainland China and Hainanese Language spoken in Hainan island Province of Mainland China. The Overseas Min Nan dialect variants spoken in Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Phillipines and some other Southeast Asian countries are influenced by Malay, English, Cantonese or other local languages spoken in the Southeast Asian Countries,while Min Nan dialects spoken in Western countries are mostly Taiwanese Min Nan Language. All the mutually intelligible Min Nan dialects spoken in Southern Fujian and Taiwan are collectively known as Min Nan or Hokkien-Taiwanese Language. The four mutually intelligible Min Nan dialects are Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, Xiamen and Taiwanese. In Taiwan, although the language had been suppressed by Kuomingtang Political Party in favor of Mandarin for decades until the martial law had been lifted since the late 1980s, the language is gradually being respected and being accorded the status of Taiwan's National Language since 2019, especially by the Taiwan's Democratic Progressive Political Party who had been responsible for the promotion of Taiwan's local languages mainly due to their cultural, political and ideological reasons. In Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia, the overseas chinese call it as Hokkien (福建話 Hok-kiàn-ōe), while in the Phillipines, the overseas chinese call it "Our People's Language" (咱儂話 Lán-lâng-ōe). It is also spoken by the certain overseas chinese population whose ancestral families hail from Southern Fujian, particularly in Southeast Asian countries such as Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia and Phillipines, where they make up the largest chinese Non-Mandarin Chinese Language group before Cantonese. It is the most well known and the largest Min Chinese subgroup and the major Min Chinese Language group of Fujian and Taiwan today. There you go – now you’ll be able to tell people which state you’re from! If you’re American, leave us a comment in Chinese to practice! I’ll start: I’m from Michigan.Southern Min, Minnan also known as Hokkien-Taiwanese in English (Mainland China Communist Party : 闽南方言 Bân-lâm-hong-giân : Min Nan Dialect Taiwan (Kuomingtang, KMT) : 臺灣閩南語 Tâi-uân-Bân-lâm-gí Min Nan Language Taiwan (Democratic Progressive Party, DPP and other Pro-Independence Political Parties) : 臺語 tâi-gí Taiwanese Language), is a Min Sinitic language sub-group of dialects that is mainly spoken in Southern region of Fujian province in Mainland China and Taiwan. Without further adieu, here are the Chinese names for all 50 states: My poor state (Michigan) can’t seem to make up its mind when it comes to its Chinese name, as two are commonly used – “Mì xiē gēn” and “Mì xī gēn.” When referring to Washington or New York in Chinese, you’ll want to add the character for “ state” (州 – zhōu) to differentiate the between D.C. Some names sound about the same, such as “Ā lā bā m ǎ” and “Mì xī xī b ǐ,” which you probably guessed are Alabama and Mississippi. What state do you think is called “Qiáo zhì yà” in Chinese? How about “Bīn xī f ǎ ní y ǎ”? Those would be Georgia and Pennsylvania. ![]() Sure, Americans tend to mispronounce Chinese words for cities/provinces – Chinese people are always correcting foreigners on their pronunciation of Shanghai, for example – but often times the Chinese words for American states or cities sound little to nothing like the English name.
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