Titlebook: Southern Min (Hokkien) as a Migrating Language; A Comparative Study Picus Sizhi Ding Book 2016 The Author(s) 2016 Hokkien.Multilingualism.

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Taiwan: The Haven for Southern Min?,e proficiently by the older generations (from the middle-aged on). Furthermore, teaching of Southern Min is deliberately left to grandparents in some families. Compared with Mandarin, children’s Southern Min is less fluent and used less often.

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The Fate of Hokkien in Its Homeland,he one that will first complete the change to become a .-speaking city and this trend of language shift will affect the other cities unless a significant event reverses the current direction of development.

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Conclusion,that among members of a set, the chronological order of the members correlates with the language shift from Hokkien to Mandarin: the youngest one is the first to complete the change, whereas the oldest one shows more resistance to this change, resulting in a slower pace.