Medan Hokkien is a local variety of Hokkien spoken amongst Chinese Indonesians in Medan, North Sumatra, Indonesia. It is the lingua franca in Medan as...

Philippines; Singapore; Brunei; Medan, Riau and other cities in Indonesia; and from Perlis, Kedah, Penang and Klang in Malaysia. Hokkien originated in the southern...

and other spices. In Indonesia, hokkien mee (known as Mie Hokkien) is associated particularly with the city of Medan on Sumatra. While the ingredients...

Singaporean Hokkien, Penang Hokkien, Philippine Hokkien, Medan Hokkien, and Southern Peninsular Malaysian Hokkien. It is mutually intelligible with the Amoy...

Philippine Hokkien, like other Southeast Asian variants of Hokkien (e.g. Singaporean Hokkien, Penang Hokkien, Johor Hokkien and Medan Hokkien), has borrowed...

Asia include Singaporean Hokkien, Penang Hokkien, Southern Peninsular Malaysian Hokkien, Medan Hokkien, and Philippine Hokkien. Teo-Swa or Chaoshan speech...

Medan (/mɛˈdɑːn/ meh-DAHN, Indonesian: [mɛˈdan] ) is the capital and largest city of the Indonesian province of North Sumatra. The nearby Strait of Malacca...

people Hokkien culture Hokkien architecture Written Hokkien Hokkien media Penang Hokkien Singaporean Hokkien Taiwanese Hokkien Medan Hokkien Philippine...

in Medan and North Sumatra, Indonesia. It is markedly distinct from Southern Peninsular Malaysian Hokkien, Singaporean Hokkien and Taiwanese Hokkien. Penang...

are predominantly Hokkien (Min Nan) speakers, and there are also two different variants of Hokkien being used, such as Medan Hokkien, which is based on...

Singapore Hokkien Penang Hokkien Southern Malaysia Hokkien Medan Hokkien Philippine Hokkien Speak Hokkien Campaign Holopedia *Iûⁿ Ún-giân; Tiuⁿ Ha̍k-khiam...

officials and explorers. It is closely related to Hokkien, as it shares some cognates and phonology with Hokkien. Teochew preserves many Old Chinese pronunciations...

Hokkien, a Southern Min variety of Chinese spoken in Southeastern China, Taiwan and Southeast Asia, does not have a unitary standardized writing system...

architecture Written Hokkien Hokkien media Southern Malaysia Hokkien Penang Hokkien Taiwanese Hokkien Medan Hokkien Singaporean Hokkien Amoy dialect Lan-nang-ue...

Singaporean Hokkien is a local variety of the Hokkien language spoken natively in Singapore. Within Chinese linguistic academic circles, this dialect...

Amoy Southern Min Hokkien Quanzhou & Zhangzhou Taiwanese Penang Hokkien Medan Hokkien Lan-nang Written Hokkien Holopedia Speak Hokkien Campaign Languages...

Yue (including the Cantonese and Taishanese variants) Min (including the Hokkien and Fuzhounese variants) Hakka (Kejia) Xiang (Hunanese) Gan (Jiangxinese)...

being mutually unintelligible with other Southern Min varieties such as Hokkien–Taiwanese and Teochew. In the classification of Li Rong, used by the Language...

mainland China is Hokkien, a variety of Southern Min which has its origin in southern Fujian. Amoy Hokkien is the prestige dialect of Hokkien in Fujian, while...

Sumatra, Riau, Riau Islands and Jambi, two varieties of Hokkien exist, Medan Hokkien and Riau Hokkien, which incorporate local and Indonesian vocabulary....

lexicon. Riau Hokkien is spoken in the middle and southern part of the Indonesian island of Sumatra and is very different from Medan Hokkien which is used...

Penang Hokkien, and Medan Hokkien, and to its north, like Taiwanese Hokkien. Philippine Hokkien has preserved vocabulary that most Hokkien speakers...

Straits Hokkien Penang Hokkien Medan Hokkien Hokkien Kelantan Philippine Hokkien Southern Malacca Straits Hokkien Southern Peninsular Malaysian Hokkien Singaporean...

colloquial Fuzhou dialect, but tsō (IPA: /t͡so²²/) in Xiamen and Taiwanese Hokkien. Eastern Min varieties have an upper register tone for words which correspond...

Province. As it is mutually unintelligible to neighbouring varieties (e.g. Hokkien) in the province, under a technical linguistic definition Fuzhou is a language...

had been widely used. Since Teochew has high phonetic similarity with Hokkien, another Southern Min variety, Pe̍h-ōe-jī and Tai-lo can also be used to...

of Hokkien that originated from the city of Quanzhou in Fujian. Riau Hokkien is slightly mutually unintelligible with Medan Hokkien spoken in Medan since...

Straits Hokkien Penang Hokkien Medan Hokkien Hokkien Kelantan Philippine Hokkien Southern Malacca Straits Hokkien Southern Peninsular Malaysian Hokkien Singaporean...

has six tones, which are reduced to two in checked syllables. Taiwanese Hokkien Teochew dialect List of Chinese dialects Min is believed to have split...

Pe̍h-ōe-jī (Taiwanese Hokkien: [pe˩ˀ o̯e̞˩ d͡ʑi˧] , English approximation: /ˌpɛɔɪdʒiː/ PEH-oy-JEE; abbr. POJ; lit. 'vernacular writing'), sometimes known...