Hokkien / Minnan related links.

[Sim Lee]

Hi there,

I've been away from this Forum for a few weeks.

Some time ago, (I think) Aurelio asked for references to internet sites relating to Hokkien / Minnan-dialects.

I thought I'd create a new topic, with the links I know of.

Please add other (good) links which you know of.

One small request: could we keep this thread "on topic" and only put actual links here...

Thanks,
Sim.

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[Sim Lee]

These are the links I know of, which some info on the contents.

http://daiwanway.dynip.com/ (a private individual, interested in Hokkien).

http://ling.uta.edu/~taiffalo/english/eng.htm (a private individual, interested in Hokkien).

http://members.tripod.com/~citylion/ (a private individual, interested in Hokkien). Specifically, click on "My Heritage", "Xiau Fuchun": 3

articles about Hokkien.

http://www.geocities.com/niucls/ (a private individual, interested in Hokkien).

http://www.coastalfog.net/languages/lang_main.html (a private individual, interested in Hokkien).

http://www.coastalfog.net/languages/xiarom.html (article on Peh-Oe-Ji).

http://www.ling.udel.edu/pcole/MalayInd ... racts.html (small reference to an article on "A Preliminary Investigation of the

Phonology of Baba Hokkien of Penang").

http://203.64.42.21/iug/ungian/POJ/siau ... loeter.pdf (article on the history of Peh-Oe-Ji).

http://www.gio.gov.tw/taiwan-website/5- ... pt03-2.htm (article on Taiwanese language(s)).

http://www.ncku.edu.tw/~taiwan/taioan/h ... hok-su.htm (article: "LEXICAL CHANGE AND VARIATION IN TAIWANESE

LITERARY TEXTS, 1916 –1998").

http://home.kimo.com.tw/de-han/pehoeji/lomaji/index.htm (article: "Romanization and Language Planning in Taiwan").

http://www.hoklo.org/YuetCulture/Articles/?item=4#4 (article on the relationship of some Hokkien underlayer words to Polynesian).

http://www.hoklo.org/HokloCulture/?faq=all (faq on Hoklo).

http://www.wiedenhof.nl/ul/chtk/nieuws/twunicod/ (old newspaper article on Hokkien and Unicode).

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/archive ... 0000083881 (old newspaper article on Hokkien in politics).

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/archive ... 0000101741 (old newspaper article on Hokkien being taught at Harvard University).

http://www.iles.umn.edu/new_linguistics.htm (an academic, interested in Hokkien).

http://www.indiana.edu/~ealc/people/fac ... l/yan.html (an academic, interested in Hokkien).

[alaxieniye]

大家好！
对不起，在线里有没有任何为了学习闽南话的网页？
非常感谢。

[Niuc]

您好!
上面那些網頁地址也有學習閩南語的. 這個網頁 http://edu.ocac.gov.tw/language/taiwanese/ 確實很棒, 不妨去看看.
祝你學地愉快.

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[alaxieniye]

非常感谢！这个网也对我当然有帮助！
大家再见！Niuc wrote:

> 您好!
> 上面那些網頁地址也有學習閩南語的. 這個網頁
> http://edu.ocac.gov.tw/language/taiwanese/ 確實很棒,
> 不妨去看看.
> 祝你學地愉快.
>

[Aurelio]

Hi Sim Lee,

I haven't been around for a while (studying for my PhD exams) - thanks for putting this list together, it's very impressive! I'd like to add some links to the list:

Quite a number of modern books in Hokkien can be found at:

http://www.king-an.com.tw/ (look for the books)

A newsgroup in Hokkien:

http://tw.groups.yahoo.com/group/taigubang/

Some more books (among other things):

http://lomaji.com/tgb/

various links about Hokkien/ Taiwanese under:

http://www.edutech.org.tw/January-2001-T.htm
http://www.edutech.org.tw/Publn/Liim-KH-2.htm


And, for those in the States, there IS a Taiwanese language course at Berkeley:

http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~taioanoe/



Regards,
Aurelio

[Sim]

Hi Aurelio,

Great to see you back on this forum. I too was away for a while. Do I remember correctly that you (despite the Italian-sounding name) are German? Where are you located and what is the subject of your PhD? I'm Chinese, but only speak Hokkien, no Mandarin.

This is another nice site:

http://taiwan.8m.net/study.html

Most of the page is about Mandarin, but there is one sub-section "Learning Taiwanese", which gives a couple of nice links to some rather interesting Hokkien-related pages.

Regards,
Sim.

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[Aurelio]

Hi Sim,

yes, I'm a German (with Italian ancestry) and I've been living in the States for a little while now. I work in mass spectrometry, building instruments for chemical, biochemical and genetics applications. Right now, I'm preparing for my PhD exams in physics (two more weeks to go), kind of hard since I spent the last 6 years mainly in industry research and only very little of it in the lecture hall. Once I'm done with the exams I'll check out all the links on this page Are you working for Elsevier science? And how do I write your name in 汉字?

Best regards,
Aurelio

[Sim]

Hi Aurelio,

Hahaha, I just noticed that I've done *exactly* what I requested other readers not to do, namely put lots of off-topic stuff into this particular topic. Oh well, I suppose that's how people work - they read something and just automatically reply to it.

Yes, I do work for Elsevier Science. I’m a computer programmer, writing programs in C, with some work in XML.

The name I was given at birth (traditional Chinese word order, surname first) is Lee Hock Sim (Li Fu-sen in pinyin). It’s a genuine Hokkien name, as this practice was very common in Malaysia in the middle to the 20th century. It’s written "plum good-fortune forest" (the last one being 3 trees: "mu" in Mandarin, "bok", in Hokkien). I know that other readers write stuff in characters on this forum, but I’ve never looked much into how one inputs Hanzi on the computer as I can only read about 100 of them anyway. Also, having lived in western countries for most of my life, I generally call and think of myself as Sim Lee.

Please feel free to mail me - I’d love to know more about why/how you started getting interested in Hokkien in the first place - my email address is sleeantispam@antispamxs4all.nl (please remove the two "antispams"). I speak it at only a very basic level - home and street type subjects only, and even then, we use a lot of borrowed words from English. Nevertheless, I’m very interested in Hokkien, and love to read stuff on this forum. One of these days I’m going to go to Taiwan and do both a Mandarin and a Taiwanese language course (but the next language on my list is actually Italian, I already speak German reasonably fluently).

The other thing I would like to do on this forum is a vocabulary list of common words which are different in Penang Hokkien from Amoy or Taiwanese Hokkien. So many things to do, so little time to do them in!

Cheers,
Sim.

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[Sim]

Oh, forgot to say: Good luck for your exams!

Sim.