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  • proper noun Alternative spelling of Min Nan.

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Examples

  • She loathes CCP, and she is from the area near south Fujian and speaks the Minnan aka South Fujianese or Taiwanese dialect.

    Archive 2006-11-01 Sun Bin 2006

  • She loathes CCP, and she is from the area near south Fujian and speaks the Minnan aka South Fujianese or Taiwanese dialect.

    Taiwan: suggested pan-Red strategy Sun Bin 2006

  • But Mr. Huang said that their counterparts there, who mostly speak a language called Minnan, also constructed many tulou for security.

    NYT > Home Page By EDWARD WONG 2011

  • Activists angered by ministry's use of 'Minnan' for Hoklo

    Taipei Times 2009

  • Yang, who met the protesters on behalf of Minister of Education Cheng Jei-cheng (鄭瑞城), said the ministry had long used the term "Minnan" in curriculum guidelines.

    Taipei Times 2009

  • Although Councillor Denzil Minnan-Wong said it was a “a slap in the face to Torontonians,” deputy mayor Joe Pantalone suggested in was a slightly more complicated picture, with City spokesman Kevin Sack saying these type of agreements were standard.

    Controversy Continues, Even after Strike Resolution : Law is Cool 2009

  • Teaching tends not to take this linguistic diversity into account: instruction mostly takes place in standard Mandarin putonghua/普通话, sometimes with intervention in the dominant local dialect, especially if it enjoys a certain prestige, such as Cantonese and Minnan.

    Ten Things I Think I Know (Part 1) « Ken Wilson's Blog 2010

  • Though, these Mainlander gangs today have branched to include Minnan, Hakka as well.

    High Class Mainlanders Arrive In Taiwan Michael Turton 2009

  • There are quite a few strong Minnan Taiwanese independence supporters that also work hard in the areas of taking care of family-less old waisheng soldiers and also in cultural preservation of the Jwuan Chun or military villages, also largely waisheng or pro-KMT strongholds.

    Reconstructing post-1949 Nationalist History in Taiwan Michael Turton 2009

  • Personally, I think some of the Taiwanese pride Minnan pride has been way too exaggerated by waisheng.

    Reconstructing post-1949 Nationalist History in Taiwan Michael Turton 2009

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