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- proper noun Alternative spelling of
Min Nan .
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Examples
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She loathes CCP, and she is from the area near south Fujian and speaks the Minnan aka South Fujianese or Taiwanese dialect.
Archive 2006-11-01 Sun Bin 2006
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She loathes CCP, and she is from the area near south Fujian and speaks the Minnan aka South Fujianese or Taiwanese dialect.
Taiwan: suggested pan-Red strategy Sun Bin 2006
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But Mr. Huang said that their counterparts there, who mostly speak a language called Minnan, also constructed many tulou for security.
NYT > Home Page By EDWARD WONG 2011
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Activists angered by ministry's use of 'Minnan' for Hoklo
Taipei Times 2009
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Yang, who met the protesters on behalf of Minister of Education Cheng Jei-cheng (鄭瑞城), said the ministry had long used the term "Minnan" in curriculum guidelines.
Taipei Times 2009
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Although Councillor Denzil Minnan-Wong said it was a “a slap in the face to Torontonians,” deputy mayor Joe Pantalone suggested in was a slightly more complicated picture, with City spokesman Kevin Sack saying these type of agreements were standard.
Controversy Continues, Even after Strike Resolution : Law is Cool 2009
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Teaching tends not to take this linguistic diversity into account: instruction mostly takes place in standard Mandarin putonghua/普通话, sometimes with intervention in the dominant local dialect, especially if it enjoys a certain prestige, such as Cantonese and Minnan.
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Though, these Mainlander gangs today have branched to include Minnan, Hakka as well.
High Class Mainlanders Arrive In Taiwan Michael Turton 2009
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There are quite a few strong Minnan Taiwanese independence supporters that also work hard in the areas of taking care of family-less old waisheng soldiers and also in cultural preservation of the Jwuan Chun or military villages, also largely waisheng or pro-KMT strongholds.
Reconstructing post-1949 Nationalist History in Taiwan Michael Turton 2009
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Personally, I think some of the Taiwanese pride Minnan pride has been way too exaggerated by waisheng.
Reconstructing post-1949 Nationalist History in Taiwan Michael Turton 2009
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