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Amoy dialect

NameAmoy
Nativename  /   Ē-mn̂g-ōe
FamilycolorSino-Tibetan
StatesPeople's Republic of China, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Philippines, Taiwan (where it is known as Taiwanese), Japan (due to large Taiwanese community in Tokyo-Yokohama Metropolitan Area), and other areas of Min Nan and Hoklo settlement
RegionSouthern Fujian province
Speakersover 10 million (no recent data)
Fam2Chinese
Fam3Min
Fam4Coastal Min
Fam5Min Nan
Fam6Hokkien
Linglistnan-amo
Mapcaption  Amoy
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Amoy ( ), also known as Xiamenese or Xiamen dialect, is a Hokkien dialect which originally comes from Southern Fujian province (in Southeast China), in the area centered around the city of Xiamen. It is highly similar to Taiwanese, and is widely known as Hokkien in Southeast Asia. Their relation is similar to the one between British English and American English. Amoy is widely considered to be the prestige dialect within Hokkien and Min Nan (including Taiwanese) in general. For this reason, Amoy is often simply called Hokkien or Min Nan.

Spoken Amoy and Taiwanese are both mixtures of Zhangzhou and Quanzhou speech. As such, they are very closely aligned phonologically. However, there are some subtle differences between the two, as a result of physical separation and other historical factors. The lexical differences between the two are slightly more pronounced. Generally speaking the Hokkien dialects of Amoy, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, Taiwan, and Southeast Asia are mutually intelligible.

Amoy dialect Video

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This is just a selection of photos of my family, friends and I. It goes along with my FIRST original song called My Heartbeat. Hope you all enjoy. #DreamChaser
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China Post---...- all but half of the twentieth century. Hoklo or -Amoy- and Hakka are -dialects- like Mandarin, but they all belong to the Chinese or Sinitic language family.--- - Date : Thu, 12 Aug 2010 02:00:45 GMT+00:00
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Peace FM Online--Yahoo : The most popular theory is that the word ketchup was derived from "koe-chiap" or "ke-tsiap" in the -Amoy dialect- of China, where it meant the brine ... - Date : Sun, 11 Jul 2010 19:01:40 GMT+00:00

unaspirated aspirated
bilabial stop bo 母 po 保 pʰo 抱
velar stop go 俄 ko 果 kʰo 科
voiced voiceless

Tones :
Tone number Tone name Tone letter
1 Yin level ˥
2 Yin rising ˥˧
3 Yin falling ˨˩
4 Yin entering ˩ʔ
5 Yang level ˧˥
6=2 Yang rising ˥˧
7 Yang falling ˧
8 Yang entering ˥ʔ

Literary and colloquial readings :
Colloquial Literary Example
[p-], [pʰ-] [h-] pun hun divide
[ts-], [tsʰ-], [tɕ-], [tɕʰ-] [s-], [ɕ-] chiâⁿ sêng to become
[k-], [kʰ-] [tɕ-], [tɕʰ-] kí chí finger
[-ã], [-uã] [-an] khòaⁿ khàn to see
[-ʔ] [-t] chia̍h si̍t to eat
[-i] [-e] sì sè world
[-e] [-a] ke ka family
[-ia] [-i] kh khì to stand

Southern Min languages

Hokkien (Min - Tai Division)Amoy Min * Quanzhou dialect * Zhangzhou dialect * Taiwanese Minnan * Singaporean Hokkien * Lan-nang Hokkien * Penang Hokkien * Muar Hokkien * Medan Hokkien
Teochew (Chaoshan Division)Chaozhou Min * Shantou dialect * Chaoyang dialect * Puning dialect * Huilai dialect * Hailufeng dialect * Bangkok Teochew
Qiongwen DivisionHainanese Min
Leizhou Min DivisionLeizhou Min * Zhanjiang dialect
Zhenan Min DivisionZhenan Min * Longhai dialect * Zhangpu dialect * Anxi dialect * Hui'an dialect * Tong'an dialect

Chinese language(s)

Spoken varieties
Major
subdivisions
MandarinNortheastern * Jilu * Jiao-Liao * Zhongyuan * Southwestern * Lanyin * Jianghuai * Beijing * Dungan * Xuzhou * Luoyang * Jinan * Karamay * Nanking * Sichuanese * Kunming * Shenyang * Harbin * Qingdao * Guanzhong * Dalian * Weihai * Taiwanese Mandarin * Singaporean Mandarin
WuTaihu * Chuqu * Shanghainese * Suzhou * Huzhou * Hangzhou * Ningbo * Changzhou * Wenzhou * Wuxi * Taizhou * Quzhou * Jiangyin * Qihai * Jiangshan * Qingtian * Jinxiang
YueCantonese * Gaoyang * Siyi * Goulou * Wuhua * Yongxun * Luoguang * Qinlian * Guanbao * Haihua * Tanka * Taishan
MinMin Bei * Min Dong * Min Nan * Min Zhong * Puxian * Qiong Wen * Taiwanese Minnan * Teochew * Jian'ou * Hokkien * Haifeng * Zhenan * Longyan * Fuzhou * Zhanjiang * Leizhou * Nanlang * Zhongshan * Sanxiang * Zhangzhou * Quanzhou * Amoy * Shantou * Manjiang * Singaporean Hokkien
XiangChangsha * Shuangfeng
HakkaDapeng * Yuantang
Gan Chang Jing * Ying Yi * Yi Liu * Da Tong
DisputedHuizhou * Jin * Pinghua * Hohhot * Danzhou
Unclassified
Xianghua * Yuebei Tuhua * Linghua
Ausbausprachen
Standard Mandarin * Standard Cantonese * Taiwanese
Phonology
Historical * Cantonese * Mandarin
History
Old Chinese * Middle Chinese * Proto-Min * Proto-Gan * Proto-Mandarin * Han'er | |
Written varieties
Written varieties
Official
Classical * Vernacular
Other
Vernacular Cantonese * Vernacular Donggan * Vernacular Minnan |

Districts of Xiamen

Haicang * Huli * Jimei * Siming * Tong'an * Xiang'an



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