EDIT Characters for dialects The Block with the Extended Bopomofo is needed for writing Minnan and Hakka, dialects or spoken variants of the Chinese language. As with many variants of the Chinese language, there are disputes if they are languages or dialects.

Min Nan (闽南语 or in POJ Bân-lâm-gú), Minnan, or Min-nan, also known as Hokkien, is the Chinese language spoken by 49 million people in the southern Fujian province as well as by immigrants from there living in diaspora around the world. Taiwanese is a variant of Min Nan spoken on Taiwan.

Hakka (Hak 客 = guest, ka 家= family) is spoken by 90-100 million people, the Hakka people, mainly living in Southern China. Hakka is one of the five major languages / dialects spoken in China is one of the, if not the oldest dialect spoken in China, even though it is now less spoken than Mandarin. It has numerous dialects again and is spoken in Guangdong, Fujian, Guangxi, Jiangxi, Sichuan, Hunan, Guizhou provinces including Hainan Island and Taiwan, as well as Hakka people living around the world.

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