Sino-Tibetan · ISO 639-3 hnm
Hainanese Language
Hainanese is a Sino-Tibetan language spoken by about 1.1 million people.
Countries that speak Hainanese
No country-level speaker figures — see the map.
Language family
- Sino-Tibetan
- Sinitic
- Min
- Coastal Min
- Southern Min-Pu-Xian
- Southern Min
- Leiqiong
- Hainanese
Related languages
About the Hainanese language
Hainanese is spoken by about 1.1 million people, which makes it the 448th most spoken language in the world — just behind Gorontalo (1.1 million) and ahead of Hadothi (1.1 million). It belongs to the Sino-Tibetan language family and, more precisely, to the Leiqiong group within the Min branch.
Where is Hainanese spoken?
Hainanese is used in 0 countries.
Hainanese is not a national official language anywhere.
Writing system and status
Glottolog classifies it as threatened, meaning fewer children learn it than in the past.
Its closest relatives in the same branch of the family are Min Nan Chinese, Pu-Xian Chinese, Min Dong Chinese and Min Bei Chinese.
ISO codes: ISO 639-3 hnm.
Frequently asked questions about Hainanese
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Data: Languages of the World dataset (MIT) — ISO 639-3, Glottolog (CC BY 4.0), Unicode CLDR, Google LinguaMeta (CC BY 4.0) and Wikidata; country lists: samayo/country-json (MIT). Speaker numbers include first- and second-language speakers where sources report them.