Hainanese

Hainanese is a variety of Min Chinese spoken on the island of Hainan and by regional overseas Chinese communities.

In the classification by Yuan Jiahua, used by Ethnologue, it is part of the Southern Min group despite being mutually unintelligible with Southern Min varieties such as Hokkien and Teochew. In the classification of Li Rong, used by the Language Atlas of China, it is treated as a separate Min subgroup. Hou Jingyi combines it with Leizhou Min, spoken on the Leizhou Peninsula, in a Qiong–Lei group.

The term "Hainanese" is also used for the language of the Li people living in Hainan, but it generally refers to Min varieties spoken in Hainan.

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