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Hokkien

NameHokkien
Quanzhou � Zhangzhou
Nativename  Zuán � Ziāng Bbán'ggǔ
  Hō-ló-oē
FamilycolorSino-Tibetan
StatesPeople's Republic of China, Taiwan, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand, Philippines, Vietnam, United States, and other areas of Hoklo settlement
RegionSouthern Fujian province, Taiwan, Southeast Asia
Speakersc. 47.3 million
Fam2Chinese
Fam3Min
Fam4Coastal Min
Fam5Min Nan
NationNone (one of the statutory languages for public transport announcements in the Republic of China)
AgencyNone
MapcaptionDistribution of Minnan dialects. Hokkien is dark green.
Linglistnan-hok
Linglist2nan-fuj
Lingname2(redundant)
Linglist3nan-fuk
Lingname3(redundant)
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( ) or Quanzhou � Zhangzhou (BP: Zuánziū � Ziāngziū) is a group of mutually intelligible Min Nan Chinese dialects spoken in southern Fujian, Taiwan, and by many overseas Chinese throughout Southeast Asia. It is closely related to Teochew, though mutual comprehension is difficult, and somewhat more distantly related to Hainanese. The Amoy and Taiwanese prestige dialect (based on Tainan variant) are considered standards.

Hokkien Video

VIDEO EXPLANTION The reason I made this video is because the majority of Vietnamese and Cantonese people get very offended when people mistaken the language for one another or think they are the same. Im making this video for people to hear both these languages ======================================== I got a general idea from some people in forum's, blog's and video's that both these languages are closer in grammer, structure and pronouncation then compared to other Chinese dialects such as Hokkien, Hainanese Taishanese, Teochew, Hunanese, Mandarin, Hakka and other Asian languages such as Thai , Japanese , Lao, Mongolian , Khmer Tagalog ,Malay, Tibetan, Korean , Burmese, Hindi, Tamil, Indonesian and Hmong I dont think they sound nothing alike maybe a few words which is the grammer but the pronouncation is totally different ======================================== A monosyllabic language is a language in which most words predominantly consist of a single syllable. Monosyllabic languages are often tonal languages; due to the use of tones, the number of available monosyllables is significantly more than in non-tonal languages, making shorter words more practical. Examples include Vietnamese language and Old Chinese. Modern Chinese languages, ======================================== In general, African American (Black) , Caucasian (White) people from North America and Europe think all asians look alike therefore all asian anguages sound the same Now Im not stereotyping all <b>...</b>
4.40 min. | 4.21 user rating		 hokkien song by Joyce Lim. U refer to this song ?
2.90 min. | 4.74 user rating		 Hokkien popular song sung by ç¿ç«å.Also theme song of Taiwan TV serial ãç±ã.
4.57 min. | 4.77 user rating		 hokkien karaoke song
3.87 min. | 4.93 user rating		 è¿æ¯ä¸é¦70年代æ°å å¡ç¦å»ºåµçå¿å£°ã Singapore 70's hokkien soldier song.
2.63 min. | 4.89 user rating
An old hokkien song turned into a hokkien song full of profanities.. damn vulgar!
1.73 min. | 4.56 user rating
2.82 min. | 4.63 user rating		 The first Hokkien Starwars created by ahChan1104 - my yonger brother. Video Clip: Starwar DVD Soundtrack: recorded from a Singaporean radio broadcast.
0.53 min. | 4.77 user rating		 Hokkien , taiwan Lyrics: My Feeling No One Understand sim su na bo kong chu lai - matter of the heart, if not said out uh sia lang eh cai? - who will know? uh si chun seoh beh soh chut - was a time, wanted to say mua bak eh pi ai - so filled of sorrow tak jit chit toh kai - step into the 'enjoy' world si pun bo eng kai - true but it should not be ju kin chiu huan hoi - now want to go back xia lang keng liong ka - who will understand sim ai li na uh liaw kai - heart wants, if you understand chia li tio im nai - ask for your patience lam ceng mm si bo bak sai - It is not that man don't have tears ki sit mm ka lau chut lai - actually don't dare to cry out
3.53 min. | 4.83 user rating		 Another hokkien song full of profanities.. A remake of Xiao Wei song.. *edit* oops.. a mandarin song.. not hokkien song.. heheh
2.93 min. | 4.40 user rating

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Daily Express--Among those present were chairmen of the various Chinese associations and the Kota Kinabalu -Hokkien- Association's former chairmen Datuk Seri Panglima Sari ... - Date : Tue, 28 Dec 2010 08:27:10 GMT+00:00
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Malaysia Star (blog)--Prawn Noodle, or commonly known as -Hokkien- Mee in Penang, is a local hawker food delight that one should not miss when in Penang. There are many -Hokkien- Mee ... - Date : Fri, 24 Dec 2010 12:04:09 GMT+00:00
Creating more opportunities for community bonding in 2011 - Channel News Asia Tweet this news
Channel News Asia---...- for representatives from more than 20 religious organisations in December culminating in the religious leaders singing a -Hokkien- song together. ... - Date : Thu, 30 Dec 2010 15:41:17 GMT+00:00
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San Francisco Chronicle (press release)--Her multi-cultural upbringing made her fluent in the English language, several Chinese dialects (Mandarin, Cantonese, and -Hokkien-), and Bahasa Malaysia. ... - Date : Thu, 30 Dec 2010 09:11:45 GMT+00:00
Vivian Dawson impresses Jolin Tsai's mother with Hokkien - MSN Singapore Tweet this news
MSN Singapore--The model revealed that apart from learning Mandarin, he is also picking up Taiwanese language (-Hokkien-) as Jolin's mother speaks the dialect. ... - Date : Tue, 14 Dec 2010 10:39:37 GMT+00:00
Arts Guide - TODAYonline Tweet this news
TODAYonline--In English, Malay, -Hokkien- and Tamil with English surtitles. Drama Box's Li Xie adapts Fernand Crommelynk's Le Cocu Magnifique, a jealousy-driven farce ... - Date : Mon, 13 Dec 2010 22:06:25 GMT+00:00
A tribute to our good old Singlish - Straits Times Tweet this news
Straits Times--Observing the evolution in Singlish over time, Sylvia noted that Singlish phrases back in the 1970s and 1980s involved mostly -Hokkien- influences, ... - Date : Mon, 13 Dec 2010 13:16:34 GMT+00:00
Hong San See Temple wins top UNESCO award - Channel News Asia Tweet this news
Channel News Asia--In Singapore, the variants of the Minnan dialect include Teochew and -Hokkien-. In 1978, the temple, owned by the Singapore Lam Ann Association - a -Hokkien- ... - Date : Thu, 25 Nov 2010 15:30:49 GMT+00:00
Tee: My name is cleared with Liu out - Free Malaysia Today Tweet this news
Free Malaysia Today--Tee said the number "369", which was the number of votes Liu got, if read out in -Hokkien-, meant someone who liked to twist and turn. ... - Date : Tue, 30 Nov 2010 03:03:29 GMT+00:00
Woman attacked in pub - Straits Times Tweet this news
Straits Times--A young woman approached her and commented in -Hokkien- that she looked 'cocky'. 'We spoke for a while, then I went back to my table. Before I knew it, ... - Date : Sun, 14 Nov 2010 00:17:20 GMT+00:00

Vowels :
Front Near-front Central Near-back Back
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Vowels :
linki (linky)
linkɨ
linku
linke
linko (linkɤ)
linkə
linkɛ
linkɔ
linkɐ
linka
>

Tones :
Tones
陰平 陽平 陰上 陽上 陰去 陽去 陰入 陽入
Tone Number 1 5 2 6 3 7 4 8
調值 Xiamen, Fujian 44 24 53 - 21 22 32 4
東 taŋ1 銅 taŋ5 董 taŋ2
凍 taŋ3 動 taŋ7 觸 tak4 逐 tak8
Taipei, Taiwan 44 24 53 - 11 33 32 4
Tainan, Taiwan 44 23 41 - 21 33 32 44
Zhangzhou, Fujian 34 13 53 - 21 22 32 121
Quanzhou, Fujian 33 24 55 22 41 5 24

Pronouns :
Person Singular Plural
First person 我
góa		 阮1, 3gún, góan

咱2, 3 or 俺
lán or án

我儂
góa-lâng
Second person 你
lí

汝
lú		 恁
lín

恁儂
lín lâng
Third person 伊
i		 亻因
in

伊儂
i lâng

Literary and colloquial readings :
Word Reading Word Reading
Literary Colloquial Literary Colloquial
白 'white' pek pèh 返 'return' hoán tńg
面 'face' biān bīn 學 'school' ha̍k o̍h
書 'book' su chu 人 'person' jîn, lîn lâng
生 'life' seŋ seⁿ, siⁿ 少 'few' siáu chió
明 'bright' bîng, bêng bîn, mê, miâ 轉 'turn' choán tńg

Literary and colloquial readings :
Numeral Reading Numeral Reading
Literary Colloquial Literary Colloquial
〇 空
khòng		 零
lîng
一 it chit 六 lio̍k la̍k
二 jī, lī nn̄g, nō͘ 七 chhit
三 sam saⁿ 八 pat peh, pueh
四 sù, sɨ sì 九 kiú káu
五 ngō gō 十 si̍p cha̍p

Semantic differences between Hokkien and Mandarin :
Meaning Hokkien Mandarin
Hanji POJ Hanzi Pinyin
eye   ba̍k-chiu   yǎnjīng
chopstick   tī, tū   kuàizi
to chase   jiok, lip   zhuī
wet   jūn, lūn   shī
black   o͘   hēi
book   chheh   shū

Semantic differences between Hokkien and Mandarin :
Word Hokkien Mandarin
POJ Meaning
(and Classical Chinese)		 Pinyin Meaning
  cáu to flee zǒu to walk
  sè, suè tiny, small, young xì thin, slender
  tiáⁿ pot dǐng tripod
  chia̍h to eat shí food
  kuân tall, high xuán to hang, to suspend
  chhuì mouth huì beak

Words from Minyue :
Word Hokkien POJ Foochow Romanized Meaning
  kha ([kʰa˥]) kă ([kʰa˥]) foot and leg
  kiáⁿ ([kiã˥˩]) giāng [kiaŋ˧] son, child, whelp, a small amount
  khùn [kʰun˨˩] káung [kʰɑuŋ˧] to sleep
  phiaⁿ [pʰiã˥] piăng [pʰiaŋ˥] back, dorsum
  chhù [tsʰu˨˩] chuó, chió [tsʰuɔ˥˧] home, house
  thâi [tʰai˨˦] tài [tʰai˥˧] to kill, to slaughter

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 |



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