Where is the Minnan language?

Minnan is the language of Taiwan Province Province and Fujian Province.

It is said that Minnan dialect originated in the Yellow River and Luoshui Valley, moved to southern Fujian in the Western Jin, Tang and Northern Song Dynasties, and originated in Quanzhou, Fujian.

At present, it is mainly distributed not only in southern Fujian and Taiwan Province Province, but also in northeastern Fujian, southeastern Zhejiang, Chaoshan (Jieyang, Shantou and Chaozhou), Hailufeng, western Guangdong (Zhanjiang, Maoming and Yangjiang), Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (Zhongshan and Hong Kong), Hainan Island and most Chinese communities in Southeast Asia.

Taiwanese Minnan language is also called Taiwanese Minnan language: it can be called "seamount abuse" and "sea abuse". It is divided into four representatives: Haikou (Quanzhou), Tongkou and Neipu (Zhangzhou). The main features are the emergence of a large number of loanwords such as Pingpu, English, Dutch and Japanese, and the influence of provincial dialects such as "Mandarin" and "Wu" promoted by Taiwan Province Provincial Department.

Zhangzhou immigrants mainly live in the central plain, northern coastal areas and Yanglan plain, so it is called Neipu cavity. Quanzhou immigrants mainly live in the central coast and Taipei basin, known as Haikou, and the southern part is a mixed area of Quanzhou and Zhangzhou. Therefore, the statement that "Quanzhou people live in the seashore and Zhangzhou people live in the inland plain" only conforms to this distribution in the central part of Taiwan Province Province.