Hokkien (dialect)

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Hokkien (dialect)

	nativename	閩南語/闽南语 ''Bân-lâm-gú''
	familycolor	Sino-Tibetan
	states	People's Republic Of China , Republic Of China ( Taiwan ), Malaysia , Indonesia , Singapore , Philippines , and other areas of Min Nan and Hoklo settlement
	region	Southern Fujian province the Chaozhou - Shantou ( Chaoshan ) area and Leizhou Peninsula in Guangdong province extreme south of Zhejiang province most of Taiwan much of Hainan ''(if Hainanese or Qiong Wen is included)''
	speakers	49 million
	rank	21 ''(if Qiong Wen is included)''
	fam2	Chinese
	fam3	Min
	nation	none ( Legislative Bill s have been proposed to have Taiwanese be a 'national language' in the Republic Of China but these are unlikely to pass) one of the four announcement languages on the Taipei metro
	agency	none ( ROC Ministry of Education and some NGOs are influential in Taiwan )

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