你好!
say it: “LEE-hoh”
Hokkien
in its own words: 閩南語
- Speakers
- 50 million (estimate)
- Family
- Sino-Tibetan
- Vitality
- Safe
- Where it is spoken
- People's Republic of China, Taiwan, Province of China
- Script
- Chinese characters (simplified)
- Official language
- Taiwan, Province of China
Fun fact
Southern Min (Hokkien, Taiwanese) spread across Southeast Asia with emigrants. The forms “tea”, “thé” and “Tee” come from it, while “chai” goes back to Mandarin “chá”.