Hainanese dialect
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Hainanese
海南話
Spoken in: China, United States (California), Taiwan, Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong 
Region: Hainan
Total speakers: 1.1 million
Language family: Sino-Tibetan
 Chinese
  Min
   Min Nan
    Hainanese
Language codes
ISO 639-1: zh
ISO 639-2: chi (B)   (T)
ISO 639-3:

Hainanese (海南話) or Qiongwen (琼文) is a variant of the Min Nan group of Chinese spoken in the southern Chinese island province of Hainan. Hainanese can sometimes mean the language of the Li people living in the southern coast of Hainan but Hainanese generally means the spoken language of the Han Chinese in Hainan. Hainanese is mutually unintelligible with any other variants of the Min Nan dialects — including, but not limited to Hokkien, Teochew, and Taiwanese.

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