A sample survey conducted by Sinorama discovered that only about a third of people under 30 years old said that they speak southern Fujianese fluently; this is much lower than the 60 % of people over 30 who gave the same response.
本刊的抽樣調查就發現，三十歲以下的年輕人認為自己閩南語說得流利的只有三成多，相較於三十歲以上高達六成以上明顯地低許多。