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  1. Written Hokkien. Hokkien, a variety of Chinese that forms part of the Southern Min family and is spoken in Southeastern China, Taiwan and Southeast Asia, does not have a unitary standardized writing system, in comparison with the well-developed written forms of Cantonese and Standard Chinese (Mandarin).

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    Hokkien ( / ˈhɒkiɛn / HOK-ee-en, US also / ˈhoʊkiɛn / HOH-kee-en) [8] is a variety of the Southern Min languages, native to and originating from the Minnan region, in the southeastern part of Fujian in southeastern mainland China.

  3. Taiwanese Hokkien is a variety of Hokkien, a Southern Min language. Like many varieties of Min Chinese, it has distinct literary and colloquial layers of vocabulary, often associated with formal and informal registers respectively. The literary layer can be traced to the late Tang dynasty, and as such is related to Middle Chinese.

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  5. There are two ways to write Hokkien. 1. Chinese characters. 2. Roman characters. Like all other vernacular Chinese languages such as Mandarin or Cantonese, written Hokkien was inconsistent, due to a lack of official recognition. This is because only Classical Chinese was recognised by the imperial courts.

  6. Hokkien /hɒˈkiɛn/ (from Chinese: 福建話; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Hok-kiàn-oē) is a group of Southern Min dialects spoken throughout Southeastern China, Taiwan and Southeast Asia, and by other overseas Chinese.

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  8. Hokkien consists of a diverse set of spoken varieties originating on the southeastern Chinese coast - particularly the cities of Choân-chiu (Quanzhou) and Chiang-chiu (Zhangzhou). The mixing of these two tongues led to the Amoy dialect, spoken in Ê-mn̂g (Xiamen) today.

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