Hainanese (Hainan Romanised: , ), also known as
Qióng Wén or
Qióng yǔ (瓊語/琼语), is a group of
Min Chinese varieties spoken in the southern Chinese island province of
Hainan. In the classification of
Yuan Jiahua, it was included in the
Southern Min group, though is mutually unintelligible with Southern Min varieties such as
Teochew and
Hokkien–
Taiwanese. In the classification of
Li Rong, used by the
Language Atlas of China, it was treated as a separate Min subgroup. It is sometimes combined with
Leizhou Min, spoken on the neighboring mainland
Leizhou Peninsula, in a Qiong–Lei group. "Hainanese" is also used for the language of the
Li people living in Hainan, but generally refers to Min varieties spoken in Hainan.