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by c00lridge
Sun Oct 21, 2007 12:32 am
Forum: Hokkien (Minnan) language
Topic: Hokkien and Japanese?
Replies: 1
Views: 9887

I found that similarity too with korean and hokkien. For example:
Korean: Hak Seng
Hokkien: Hap Seng

I guess Korean and Japanese are heavily influenced by chinese dialects just like English, Italian are heavily influenced by latin
by c00lridge
Sun Oct 21, 2007 12:26 am
Forum: Hokkien (Minnan) language
Topic: Are people here mostly from Singapore/Malaysia?
Replies: 21
Views: 42405

I'm from Belawan, the port under the municipality of Medan. Coming from there, I know a lot of people from Bagan Siapi api. I understand a little bit of their variant of hokkien. I didn't know there was so much different variety of Hokkien before. I remembered the taiwanese pop songs were popular in...