pn A group of local languages/dialects which can trace their origins to southern w:Fujian | Fujian province, China. The most prominent dialects are w:Amoy (linguistics)|Amoy (referred to as w:Taiwanese (linguistics)|Taiwanese in Taiwan, and Hokkien in Southeast Asia), w:Teochew (dialect)|Teochew, and w:Qiongwen|Qiongwen. It belongs to the w:Min (linguistics)|Min dialect group of the Sinitic branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family.