Sino-Tibetan · ISO 639-3 cdo
Min Dong Chinese Language Mìng-dĕ̤ng-ngṳ̄
Min Dong Chinese is a Sino-Tibetan language spoken by about 10 million people in 2 countries. It is written in the Latin script.
Where Min Dong Chinese is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
Language family
- Sino-Tibetan
- Sinitic
- Min
- Coastal Min
- Min Dong Chinese
Writing system
Latin script
Related languages
About the Min Dong Chinese language
Min Dong Chinese (Mìng-dĕ̤ng-ngṳ̄) is spoken by about 10 million people, which makes it the 116th most spoken language in the world — just behind Afrikaans (10 million) and ahead of Tigrinya (10 million). It belongs to the Sino-Tibetan language family and, more precisely, to the Coastal Min group within the Min branch.
Where is Min Dong Chinese spoken?
Min Dong Chinese is used in 2 countries. The largest communities live in China (9.5 million) and Singapore (54,256).
Share of the population that speaks Min Dong Chinese: China 0.7% (9.5 million) and Singapore 0.9% (54,256).
Min Dong Chinese is not a national official language anywhere.
Writing system and status
Min Dong 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, Pu-Xian Chinese, Hainanese and Min Bei Chinese.
ISO codes: ISO 639-3 cdo.
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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.