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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).
Hokkien can be written in the Latin script using one of several systems. A popular system is POJ, developed first by Presbyterian missionaries in China and later by the indigenous Presbyterian Church in Taiwan.
There are a number of different writing systems for the Hokkien group of languages, including romanizations, adaptations of Bopomofo, of katakana, and of Chinese characters. Some of the most popular are compared here.
Written Hokkien. Category: Southern Min-language dialects. Hidden category: Wikipedia categories named after languages.
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.
This page may take a while to download. Best viewed with Google Chrome. 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.
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