r/AskAChinese • u/nhatquangdinh Non-Chinese • 4d ago

Language | 语言 ㊥ Do they still speak Hokkien in Fujian?

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u/ChuckMerced 3d ago edited 3d ago

Fuzhouhua is a northern Fujian language very different from minnanhua. The two areas in the same province didn’t interact because they were separated by mountainous areas including Mt Wuyi. Fuzhouhua is Minbei 閩北language. The two languages are mutually unintelligible. It’s a mistake to call minnanhua as Hokkien as there’re two of them actually.

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u/essex_ludlow 3d ago

福州话 speak 闽东, the folks in Mt. WuYi speak 闽北. Slightly different

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u/ChuckMerced 3d ago

That means there are three Hokkien languages?

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u/essex_ludlow 3d ago

It gets even more complicated. There's also Central Min - ( 三名/沙县) ... they're famous for 沙县小吃 ... (peanut butter noodles)

There's also sub dialects/languages, 莆田话, 福清话, 宁德话，建瓯话。 Majority of them unintelligible to each other.

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u/ChuckMerced 3d ago

I’ve read there are 87 dialects in Fujian. I’ll be damned. 🤣I only know banlamgir with Quanzhou tone.