Diacritics

Discussions on the Hokkien (Minnan) language.
Yeleixingfeng
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Re: Diacritics

Post by Yeleixingfeng »

What are siokjis?

And, the idea of Hangul is really appealing. I was thinking about ways to form a unified Hangul-like system so that all Chinese dialects can use it. I mean, they share many characteristics among the different dialects. For example, as far as I know, Hainanese uses the Dh consonant, such as Dhu in you (汝?) But I don't think it occurs in Hokkien. Hence, the Hangul letter for the consonant Dh would be known and used by the Hainanese, but not Hokkien people. Likewise for the vowels and consonants that are obscure or absent in other dialects.

But, ultimately I would not encourage the full usage of such Hangul. They might end up like Korean, being all Hangul and only uses a few Hanja.
Ah-bin
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Re: Diacritics

Post by Ah-bin »

Siók-jī = 俗字 common or vulgar characters - not vulgar in the sense of rude, but in the sense of "in common use"

My definition in Penang Hokkien would be:
正儕儂慣勢用个字,無定著是著个,焦鱉較儕儂捌个。
Chiàⁿ-chē-lâng koàn-sì iōng ê jī, bô-tiāⁿ-tióh si tióh ê, ta-pih khah-chē lâng bat ê.
amhoanna
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Re: Diacritics

Post by amhoanna »

焦 as Ah-bin just used it would be an example of a siokji, true?
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