Penang Hokkien

[Sim]

BTW, I just checked with a Malay native-speaker.

In the South of the Malay Peninsular, one always says "jambu bata" or "jambu air" for each to the two fruits respectively. In the North, "jambu" means "jambu batu" by default (but one can also say "jambu batu" of course), and one has to explicitly say "jambu air" when one means the latter fruit.

This corresponds completely to my usage, which makes sense, considering that Penang is in the North.

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[hong]

Jambu is Indian sanskrit word but not malay.

[Sim]

>> Jambu is Indian sanskrit word but not malay.

Jambu may have originally been an Indian Sanskrit word, but it most certainly is a perfectly normal every-day Malay word.

[hong]

India is called jambudipa in Buddhist text because the shape of their country look like jambu

[Aurelio]

Hi Sim,

Thanks for being so considerate to explain the "$" Yes, you're right, I was not familiar with those terms ... or wouldn't admit it BTW: Did you get my last email?

Regards,
Aurelio

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[Sim]

Aurelio,

>> Did you get my last email?

Yes, thank you very much. I've scanned some of the Penang Hokkien book for you, but haven't got my act together yet to write a reply... SORRY!

And I've been away for a week. Will write soon though.

Sim.

[Andrew Yong]

I have written an article on Penang Hokkien on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penang_Hokkien if anyone wants to review it.

andrew

[Sim]

Andrew,

It's brilliant!

Thank you very much for writing this article. It's well written, and now we even have our own favourite dialect on Wiki.

Great,
Sim.

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[Yisheng]

Andrew,

excellent article! Very easy to understand and just the thing we need to further promote Penang Hokkien!

Many thanks

Yisheng

[Yisheng]

I posted a message about the article on Cari.

http://chinese.cari.com.my/myforum/foru ... sid=5oE7MZ

Let's hope more people will get to see it!

Yisheng