Chinese languages

In taiping hokkien, 便宜 and 梳 are always being used. For bankrupt we say phok-kai.

SimL,

Thanks for the reply

Also,
I found it interesting that many of these common hokkien phrases listed here
http://www.xmculture.gov.cn/mtwh/mnwh/m ... 8_1880.htm

in this Xiamen Gov site are also commonly used in my Hokkien.

I'm quite new here, just wondering if there was a suggestion before to gather everyone here from different background to put together a research/document on variants today's live Hokkien aound the world.

In Taiping;
"eng" - "easy" and also "free"
"iong i" is also used for "easy" but less often.
"Kan Tan" = "Simple".
"khan khor" = "difficult"

Maybe he tried to imitate some singaporean Hokkien accent here and there. Hence the mix of accents.

Perhaps the connection with Taiping might explain the accent. Definitely not Taiping accent with the "evidence" you stated as below. In Taiping, we pronounce the same way as Penang's for all those words. :-) ty1 "pig, pork" (I think Amoy is even "ti1", with "ty1&q...

My experience with Medan Hokkien was slightly different from wangchong's. :-) I was brought up speaking Taiping (Perak) Hokkien, which is actually the same as Penang Hokkien. Based on my experience from the visit to Medan many years ago and conversation in Hokkien with a friend from Medan. I was ind...

This is what I normally say in daily conversation:

"I think" - 我想 or wa kuaⁿ (我看)
"Actually" - ki-sit (其實)

From my friends who are originally from various parts of Northern Peninsular Malaysia. There are various accents of "Northern" Hokkien in Kedah, Penang / Northern & western Perak, Kelantan and Hokkien variant south of Ipoh (e.g. Teluk Intan etc.).

Thanks Sim, It's always good to find people with the same interest. I am new to this forum. Wonder has anyone here done any studies on the variants of Hokkien in Malaysia / SE Asia? From friends who are from various parts of Malaysia. I noticed that Kelantan (Kota Bharu), Kuching, Melaka and Johor e...