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HOKKIANESE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of the forms of Chinese spoken in Fukien province
Synonyms:
Amoy; Fukien; Fukkianese; Hokkianese; Min; Min dialect; Taiwanese
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("Hokkianese" is a kind of...):
Chinese (any of the Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in China; regarded as dialects of a single language (even though they are mutually unintelligible) because they share an ideographic writing system)