Classical Chinese and Hokkien

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ong
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Post by ong »

the vowel iak(baidu)for words like 叔 is only for quanzhou city,jinjiang,huian.The rest use ik like xiamen,ciangciu.
ong
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Prof.Ciu says some singapore minnan have eng and ek instead of ing and ik.It must be bad influence from teochew dialect but not because of their ancestors are from southern ciangciu sects.
Teochew( ing ,ik ) are (in , it ) 200 years ago.
ong
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Post by ong »

we can see 漳州 is call tsing1 not tsiang for people in cuanciu.
泉州市方言志 also mention this
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Post by timluo »

ong wrote:Prof.Ciu says some singapore minnan have eng and ek instead of ing and ik.It must be bad influence from teochew dialect but not because of their ancestors are from southern ciangciu sects.
Teochew( ing ,ik ) are (in , it ) 200 years ago.
This phenomenon also exists in some parts of Fujian and Taiwan. Could it be influence from Teochew as well?

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