Qiongwen

language
name=Hainanese
nativename=海南話
familycolor=Sino-Tibetan
states=China, United States (California), Taiwan, Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong
region=Hainan
speakers=1.1 million
rank=
fam2=Chinese
fam3=Min
fam4=Min Nan
iso1=zh|iso2b=chi|iso2t=|iso3=


color box|#c8ab37 Hainanese

Qiongwen (琼文) or Hainanese (海南話) is a branch of the Min Nan group of Chinese spoken in the southern Chinese island province of Hainan. "Hainanese" can sometimes mean the language of the Li people living in the southern coast of Hainan, but generally means the Qiongwen language of the Han Chinese in Hainan. It is mutually unintelligible with other Min Nan dialects, such as Hokkien, Teochew, and Taiwanese.

ee also

* Pinyin