Sino-Tibetan · ISO 639-3 cpx
Pu-Xian Chinese Language Pó-sing-gṳ̂
Pu-Xian Chinese is a Sino-Tibetan language spoken by about 2.6 million people in 2 countries. It is written in the Latin script.
Where Pu-Xian Chinese is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
Language family
- Sino-Tibetan
- Sinitic
- Min
- Coastal Min
- Southern Min-Pu-Xian
- Pu-Xian Chinese
Writing system
Latin script
Related languages
About the Pu-Xian Chinese language
Pu-Xian Chinese (Pó-sing-gṳ̂) is spoken by about 2.6 million people, which makes it the 269th most spoken language in the world — just behind Sambalpuri (2.6 million) and ahead of Gusii (2.6 million). It belongs to the Sino-Tibetan language family and, more precisely, to the Southern Min-Pu-Xian group within the Min branch.
Where is Pu-Xian Chinese spoken?
Pu-Xian Chinese is used in 2 countries. The largest communities live in China (2.6 million) and Singapore (24,113).
Share of the population that speaks Pu-Xian Chinese: China 0.2% (2.6 million) and Singapore 0.4% (24,113).
Pu-Xian Chinese is not a national official language anywhere.
Writing system and status
Pu-Xian 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, Hainanese, Min Dong Chinese and Min Bei Chinese.
ISO codes: ISO 639-3 cpx.
Frequently asked questions about Pu-Xian Chinese
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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.