Editing Min Chinese (section)

===Coastal Min===
The coastal varieties have the vast majority of speakers, and have spread from their homeland in Fujian and eastern Guangdong to the islands of [[Taiwan]] and [[Hainan]], to other coastal areas of southern China, and to Southeast Asia.{{sfnp|Norman|1988|pp=232–233}}
Pan and colleagues divided them into three groups:{{sfnp|Kurpaska|2010|p=52}}
* [[Eastern Min]] (Min Dong), centered around the city of [[Fuzhou]], the capital of Fujian province, with [[Fuzhou dialect]] as the prestige form, also including the [[Fuqing dialect]], etc.
** The [[Longdu dialect|Longdu]] and [[Nanlang dialect]] of [[Zhongshan Min]] in Guangdong province<ref name="Minnan" />
* [[Pu-Xian Min]] is spoken in the city of [[Putian]] and the county of [[Xianyou County]]. Li Rulong and Chen Zhangtai examined 214 words, finding 62% shared with [[Quanzhou dialect]] (Southern Min) and 39% shared with Fuzhou dialect (Eastern Min), and concluded that Pu-Xian was more closely related to Southern Min.{{sfnp|Li|Chen|1991}}
* [[Southern Min]] (Min Nan) originates from the south of Fujian and the eastern corner of Guangdong. 
** In popular usage, Southern Min usually refers to dialects of the [[Hokkien|Quanzhang]] type, which originated in southern Fujian (around [[Quanzhou]], [[Zhangzhou]] and [[Xiamen]]) and spread to [[Southeast Asia]], particularly [[Singapore]], [[Malaysia]], the [[Philippines]], [[Indonesia]], [[Brunei]], [[Myanmar]], [[Cambodia]], [[Thailand]], and [[Southern Vietnam]], where they are known as Hokkien, and [[Taiwan]], where they are known as [[Taiwanese Hokkien|Taiwanese]].{{sfnp|Norman|1988|pp=232–233}} 
** The dialects of the [[Chaoshan|Teoswa / Chaoshan]] region of eastern Guangdong, including [[Teochew dialect|Teochew]] and [[Swatow dialect]]s, have difficult mutual intelligibility with the [[Amoy dialect]] of [[Hokkien]].{{sfnp|Simons|Fennig|2017|loc=Chinese, Min Nan}} Teochew varieties are the most commonly spoken by [[Thai Chinese]]{{sfnp|Norman|1988|p=233}} and [[Chinese Cambodians]], and second-most common among [[Hoa people|Hoa]] [[Vietnamese people|Vietnamese]].
** [[Zhenan Min]] of [[Cangnan County]] in southern [[Zhejiang]] is also of this type.{{sfnp|Zhang|1987}} 
** [[Haklau Min|Haklau Min (Hai Lok Hong / Hailufeng)]] spoken in eastern Guangdong to the west of Teoswa ([[Chaoshan Min]]). 
** [[Datian Min]] of [[Datian County]] in [[Sanming]], [[Fujian]] 
** Potentially, also the [[Sanxiang dialect]] of [[Zhongshan Min]] in Guangdong province<ref name="Minnan">{{Cite web |title=Reclassifying ISO 639-3 [nan]: An Empirical Approach to Mutual Intelligibility and Ethnolinguistic Distinctions |url=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/KIRINPUTRA/reclassifying-ISO-639-3-nan/main/Reclassifying_ISO_639-3_%5Bnan%5D__An_Empirical_Approach_to_Mutual_Intelligibility_and_Ethnolinguistic_Distinctions.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210919021444/https://raw.githubusercontent.com/KIRINPUTRA/reclassifying-ISO-639-3-nan/main/Reclassifying_ISO_639-3_%5Bnan%5D__An_Empirical_Approach_to_Mutual_Intelligibility_and_Ethnolinguistic_Distinctions.pdf |archive-date=2021-09-19}}</ref>{{Clarify|date=December 2023}} 
The ''[[Language Atlas of China]]'' (1987) distinguished two further groups, which had previously been included in Southern Min:{{sfnp|Kurpaska|2010|p=71}}
* [[Leizhou Min]], spoken on the [[Leizhou Peninsula]] in southwestern Guangdong.
* [[Hainanese]], spoken on the island of Hainan. These dialects feature drastic changes to initial consonants, including a series of [[implosive consonant]]s, that have been attributed to contact with the [[Tai–Kadai languages]] spoken on the island.{{sfnp|Lien|2015|p=169}}
Coastal varieties feature some uniquely Min vocabulary, including pronouns and negatives.{{sfnp|Norman|1988|pp=233–234}}
All but the Hainan dialects have complex [[tone sandhi]] systems.{{sfnp|Norman|1988|p=239}}