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Hohomi Is there a difference between the various main dialects ? I've heard of Ha mit Sia Mit Sim Mit Taiwanese use Sia Mit. How about Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou ? "ha mih" is peculiar to Southeast Asian Hokkien. "sim-mih" is Xiamenese. "Sia*-mih" or "sa*-mih&quo...

hohomi

Hi all, I wonder if anyone can help with an English translation of the definition of the character 閘 (tsah) http://twblg.dict.edu.tw/tw/index.htm says 詞目閘　　　　部首：門 169-05-13 音讀 tsah　釋義 1.截、遮斷。例：閘水　tsah tsuí(切斷水源)。 2.攔阻、擋住。例：閘佇半路拍人。Tsah tī puànn-lōo phah--lâng. (堵在半路上打人。)；頭前的人閘咧，啥物都看袂著。Thâu-tsîng ê...

hohomi

xng wrote: It seems that Xiamen pronounciation is different from the rest which reads as Low Entering tone. What is Ko7 ?

They have a different tone order. 7 is Yin entering tone(陰入) in their system.

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       yin yang
ping   1   2
shang  3   4
qu     5   6
ru     7   8

hohomi

I have finally checked and found that all of those dictionaries of reconstructed Early Middle Chinese and Ancient Chinese do in fact put an h on the end, but it is not the POJ -h representing a glottal stop, but the Malay -h supposed to represent aspiration. The problem is that it is on the end of ...

hohomi

xng wrote:Hohomi,
This is a late reply, why do you use this romanisation ie. 間 kui ?
I thought it should be pronounced as Kinn, Shouldn't K'ui be the romanisation for 開 ?

一間(kui*)房

kui* Quanzhou
kai* Tong'an
king Xiamen
kan Zhangzhou

hohomi

abc242 wrote:HiHi

Any kind soul out there can help me to translate the chinese name into Hokkien.

柯旻宇
柯昊宇

Thank you!

kua bin2 u2
kua ho6 u2

hohomi

niuc wrote:
Ah-bin wrote:Our vowels for 未, 雞, 魚 follow Cuanciu 泉州 (also Taipei?)

Not Taipei, but those places along the eastern coast of Taiwan island. An example:
A video of 顏清標.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_PuC-Zg ... re=related
You may find his accent very familiar.

hohomi

Btw using 半 'pua*3' for emphasis seems to be a Hokkien characteristic, e.g. 無人 'bo5-lang5' -> 無半人 'bo5-pua*3-lang5'. It is not in Mandarin. Does it exist in other Sinitic languages? They tend to use "one" instead of "half" in Mandarin, although they can understand when you use &...

hohomi

Sorry everyone, I've got another liau question to deal with.... I was wondering, can you say: 伊讀報紙了 I thák pò-choá liáu just by itself, or does it have to be connected to a second clause? If you can say it by itself, does it mean "He's reading the newspaper now" (and he wasn't just before...

hohomi

Haha! I feel Ah-bin is being rather too modest about his credentials... I think there would be very few sinologists (or members of this forum, for that matter) who could: 1. Meet a group of three Malaysians on a long-distance bus from Germany to Holland and speak Cantonese to one of them, Hokkien t...

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