Northern Min

Northern Min
Min Bei
Mâing-bă̤-ngṳ̌-hakṳ̃/閩北語
Native toChina
RegionNanping (northwest Fujian)
Native speakers
2.5 million (2004)
Early forms
Dialects
Kienning Colloquial Romanized (Jian'ou dialect)
Language codes
ISO 639-3mnp
Glottologminb1236
Linguasphere79-AAA-ha
  Northern Min
Counties of Nanping prefecture, Fujian

Northern Min (simplified Chinese: 闽北; traditional Chinese: 閩北; pinyin: Mǐnběi) is a group of mutually intelligible Min varieties spoken in Nanping prefecture of northwestern Fujian.

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