Sino-Tibetan · ISO 639-3 mnp
Min Bei Chinese Language Mâing-bă̤-ngṳ̌
Min Bei Chinese is a Sino-Tibetan language spoken by about 11 million people in 2 countries. It is written in the Latin script.
Where Min Bei Chinese is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
Language family
- Sino-Tibetan
- Sinitic
- Min
- Inland Min
- Min Beic
- Min Bei Chinese
Writing system
Latin script
Related languages
About the Min Bei Chinese language
Min Bei Chinese (Mâing-bă̤-ngṳ̌) is spoken by about 11 million people, which makes it the 109th most spoken language in the world — just behind Hijazi Arabic (11 million) and ahead of Wolof (11 million). It belongs to the Sino-Tibetan language family and, more precisely, to the Min Beic group within the Min branch.
Where is Min Bei Chinese spoken?
Min Bei Chinese is used in 2 countries. The largest communities live in China (2.2 million) and Singapore (18,085).
Share of the population that speaks Min Bei Chinese: China 0.2% (2.2 million) and Singapore 0.3% (18,085).
Min Bei Chinese is not a national official language anywhere.
Writing system and status
Min Bei Chinese is written in the Latin script. It is a safe, widely transmitted language: children still learn it at home as their first language.
Its closest relatives in the same branch of the family are Min Nan Chinese, Min Dong Chinese, Pu-Xian Chinese and Hainanese.
ISO codes: ISO 639-3 mnp.
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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.