Hokkien is a Chinese variety from the Southern Min branch of the Sino-Tibetan family. Its homeland is southern Fujian province in China, and it is spoken widely in Taiwan, where the local form is often called Taiwanese, as well as by long-established communities in Singapore, Malaysia, the Philippines and Indonesia. Speakers are numbered in the tens of millions worldwide. Hokkien is tonal, with an elaborate system of tone changes in connected speech, and it is not mutually intelligible with Mandarin. Traditional accents are associated with the cities of Xiamen, Quanzhou and Zhangzhou. It is written with Chinese characters, and a Latin-based romanisation known as Peh-oe-ji has been used since the nineteenth century, particularly in Taiwan.
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