Chinese languages

Thank you very much for your detailed answer, Aurelio. Now I got it. My girlfriend only speaks Mandarin and Cantonese (like her mother), so I can't understant ke-po. My best guess : mother-in-law ????

Thank you very much for your answers. So Ban-lam-gu or ban-lam-gi is exactly the same as min-nan-yu ? I mean, is it written the same in sinograms ?

Hello. I have a question about min-nan. I hope you could help me. Wikipedia suggests that the local prononciation of min-nan is something like Bân-lâm-gú (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Min_Nan ). There even exist a Wikipedia in this language that uses latin script ( http://zh-min-nan.wikipedia.or...