Medan Hokkien
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| Medan Hokkien | |
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| 棉蘭福建話 | |
| Native to | Indonesia |
| Region | Medan, Pematangsiantar, Tanjung Balai, Binjai and other cities in North Sumatra with significant chinese community. |
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Native speakers
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800.000~1.000.000 (2010)[citation needed] |
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Sino-Tibetan
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | – |
| Glottolog | None |
Medan Hokkien is a local variant of Hokkien spoken in Medan, Indonesia. It is the lingua franca in Medan as well as other northern city states of North Sumatra surrounding it, and is a subdialect of Zhangzhou (漳州) dialect, together with widespread use of Indonesian and English borrowed words. It is predominantly a spoken dialect: it is rarely written in Chinese characters as Indonesia has banned the use of Chinese characters, and there is no standard romanisation.[citation needed]
External links
- Medan & Penang Hokkien Podcast (Min-nan)
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