However, in Malaysia Minnanhua, the Minnan dialect, is showing signs of serious decline that suggest that most of its speakers are middle aged and older, which to linguists is a harbinger of a dialect's imminent disappearance.
然而大馬的閩南語卻有嚴重的退化現象，意味著閩南語使用者都是中老年人，這是被語言學家視為邁向「語言死亡」的重要指標。