Worth noting that within each of those colors are many different mutually unintelligible languages. For example, someone who speaks only Longyan Min Nan cannot understand someone who speaks Hokkien or Teochew, and vice versa. Same for every branch of Min. 1/4 https://twitter.com/jocelkx/status/1329774736952332290
Hell, even Teochew and Hokkien are not mutually intelligible. I can understand Teochew as spoken in Singapore better bc it has absorbed a lot of Hokkien influence, but Teochew as spoken in China is almost completely incomprehensible to me. 2/4
Side linguist nerd note: why does the map put Leizhou (indigo) and Hainan Min (purple) into their own groups? Most linguists consider them branches of Min Nan, albeit extremely divergent ones. 3/4
Similar story for Shao-Jiang Min (red), most linguists now consider them Min Bei with significant Gan/Hakka influence. 4/4
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