Proto-Min is a comparative reconstruction of the common ancestor of the Min group of varieties of Chinese. Min varieties developed in the relative isolation...

group having /l/ in both areas. Norman reconstructs these initials in Proto-Min as voiceless and voiced laterals that merged in coastal varieties. The...

Coastal Min branch, and is thus closely related to Northern Min. Norman lists four distinctive features in the development of Eastern Min: The Proto-Min initial...

Proto-Chadic Proto-Omotic Proto-Niger–Congo Proto-Bantu Proto-Yoruboid Proto-Northwest Caucasian Proto-Abazgi Proto-Circassian Proto-Kartvelian Proto-Georgian-Zan...

 B-12. ISBN 978-962-359-085-3. Norman, Jerry (1974), "The initials of Proto-Min", Journal of Chinese Linguistics, 2 (1): 27–36, JSTOR 23749809. (includes...

Southern Min (simplified Chinese: 闽南语; traditional Chinese: 閩南語; pinyin: Mǐnnányǔ; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Bân-lâm-gí/gú; lit. 'Southern Min language'), Minnan (Mandarin...

characters, and is assumed to represent the language of c. 1000-700 BC. Proto-Min developed from Old Chinese. Middle Chinese, broadly from about the 5th...

dialects are often taken as representative. Although coastal Min varieties can be derived from a proto-language with four series of stop or affricate initials...

diêng6 nao2 "computer" Basic words derived from Old Chinese, usually via Proto-Min; generally, they are not found in other languages of the Sinosphere, except...

Pu–Xian Min (Hinghwa Romanized: Pó-sing-gṳ̂; traditional Chinese: 莆仙話; simplified Chinese: 莆仙话; pinyin: Púxiānhuà), also known as Putian–Xianyou Min, Puxian...