AMOY

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of the forms of Chinese spoken in Fukien province

Synonyms:

Amoy; Fukien; Fukkianese; Hokkianese; Min; Min dialect; Taiwanese

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("Amoy" is a kind of...):

Chinese (any of the Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in China; regarded as dialects of a single language (even though they are mutually unintelligible) because they share an ideographic writing system)

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