Chinese vs Hokkianese language

Hokkianese language vs Chinese

Chinese and Hokkianese language both are nouns.

Chinese is an adjective but Hokkianese language is not an adjective.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
Chinese	Yes	Yes	No	No
Hokkianese language	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, Hokkianese language is a hyponym of Chinese; that is, Hokkianese language is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than Chinese:

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
Hokkianese language: any of the forms of Chinese spoken in Fukien province

Other hyponyms of Chinese include Beijing dialect, Mandarin, Mandarin Chinese, Mandarin dialect, Shanghai dialect, Wu, Wu dialect, Cantonese, Cantonese dialect, Yue, Yue dialect, Amoy, Amoy language, Fukien, Fukien language, Fukkianese, Fukkianese language, Hokkianese, Min, Min dialect, Min language, Taiwanese, Taiwanese language, Hakka, Hakka dialect.

Chinese (noun)	Hokkianese language (noun)
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	any of the forms of Chinese spoken in Fukien province
a native or inhabitant of Communist China or of Nationalist China

Chinese (adjective)	Hokkianese language (adjective)
of or pertaining to China or its peoples or cultures
of or relating to or characteristic of the island republic on Taiwan or its residents or their language

Difference between Chinese and Hokkianese language

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