Chinese languages

Indeed a vast treasure chest of Penang Hokkien! I wonder whether there are younger bhikkhus (or teachers of other religions) in Penang preaching in Hokkien. It's also interesting to learn that the teacher (the late Bhante Suvanno) was a Theravadin. From what I know, most Chinese Buddhists are follow...

Amhoanna, huan'(g)îng, huan'(g)îng lír lâi tiāuca! Ingkai ū káucàpkáu bān ā, koh ke cìt bän tō ēsái ë ä!

Ah-bin, thank you for your encouragement. I am really glad that you like the script. After recording the video, I realised that I spelled the first 願 "guān" as "kuān". I thought nobody noticed that, but apparently Loke Chin Wei noticed the discrepancy and gave me an opportunity t...

Hi all Long time not visiting this forum! Glad to see that it is still "alive" although the activities are not that robust nowadays. Meanwhile, I am experimenting with recording videos about Bagan (Bagansiapiapi) Hokkien. Here is my first video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SDzh6s5tiU A...

Niuc, goânlâi Bâgán pún ciong chù kóng cò "lāi", kah Tiôciu-ōe kāng. 8) Amhoanna, ū’iáⁿ në! Cánghng’a mng- cìt’ê Tiôciu pîng’iú, i māsī anni kóng. :idea: Bāgán’uē “laī/naī” ingkai sī tuì “chùlaī” laî ë. Nāsī “chù” niā, gún sī īnglaî kóng kuikingkuiking ê chù (the building itself). I also ...

When you say "things that are usually shared", am I correct in understanding that you mean a sort of inherent quality of the thing posessed? Or does it really have to be a shared thing in the particular context? For example, could/would a single child say "gún lãu-pē" in your va...

夠範久無來啊! :mrgreen: Gún in my variant is used for both "my" and "our" (beside "exclusive we"). Gúntau 阮兜 (or more natively and frequently gúnnaī 阮內) can mean both "our house/place" and "my house/place". In my variant, gúnhiaⁿ 阮兄 for "my elder brot...

Tsinkú bôlaî a. Kámsiā Langit kohtsaì kā lán tuàlaî hànni hó ê kinggiām. Hit ê thaûke lih kóng "governor" ūkaù sâng Ìnnî ê Tng^ lâng!

Btw I can only access the soundcloud link after removing the "https://" part.

Thank you so much, Abun & Amhoanna for discussing about "pheng". It just dawned to me that my variant uses "pīng" more than "pí". I didn't realize that it's "pīng" but subconsciously thought that it's just an elided form of "pí". Not sure how man...

Hi Amhoanna 我真正欣羨汝个 triangular knowledge of all things linguistic in S'pore, Bagan and the Big Durian (Jakarta). 是汝呣甘嫌啦! 好！我干焦叭走去햐一咜，五冬前。 叭：pat 햐：hia 咜：cōa 贊! 連Hangul嘛會通, 參落去寫佫是心適心適呢! 8) And here are the input plug-ins, for those that's ready and willing: "The FHL one" http://taigi.fhl.net...