Chinese languages

Hi all, I have a question about Hokkien in the Bisayas which I tried to post as a separate topic but it didn't seem to work. I am not a Hokkien speaker but I am studying the origin of set of Visayan words. Visayan is spoken by about 20 million people in the southern Philippines. On of the Visayan wo...

I'm trying to trace the origin of a word in Visayan, a language of the southern Philippines. The word in question is paypay ('fan') pronounced like the English word 'pie'. Historically it was Hokkien speakers who traded most in the Philippines and the trade history goes back many centuries, and it's...