Chinese languages

Niuc: My understanding of Douglas' entry is that the word phiet4 is not used in Chiangchew, which uses poa*5 instead. I don't think he thought that they were the same word. Sim: the easiest way to differentiate 3 and 7 is through their sandhi forms, if you know them. These are the sandhi rules: 1 ->...

I use poa*5 for plate.

Douglas gives phiet4 (Tongan phiet8, Chiangchew poa*5). Barclay gives no character for this word, but gives a character for poa*5.

Thank you for the replies.

Also, this is quite interesting

http://www.chinalanguage.com/Language/D ... s/doc.html


andrew

Douglas gives tsoa*2 =Amoy tsai*2 as 怎

Is there any Chinese dictionary that gives pronunciations in several dialects?


andrew

A-nia*5 / a-ba5 are the female/male equivalents. But I cannot find ba5 in the dictionary. It is the same ba as in baba /nyonya, but Barclay gives baba as ba7-ba7 (no hanzi)

Nia*5 for mother is Chinchew.


andrew