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Min Nan - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19) As Xiamen (Amoy) is the principal city of southern Fujian, the Amoy dialect is considered the most important, or even prestige variant. Xiamen and the Amoy dialect have played an influential role in history, especially in the relations of Western nations with China, and was one of the most frequently learned of all Chinese languages/dialects by Westerners during the second half of the 19th century and the early 20th century. Like most ethnic Chinese, whether from mainland China, Taiwan, Singapore, or other parts of Southeast Asia, when writing Chinese, Min Nan speakers use Chinese characters as in Standard Mandarin, although there are a number of special characters which are unique to Min Nan and sometimes used in informal writing (as is the case with Cantonese). www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Minnan   (1235 words)

Chinese in Singapore - SgWiki Unlike the Hokkien, Teochew and the Hainanese, the Cantonese speak a dialect belonging to the Yue family, and having much in common with the Hakka dialect. Since their dialect was initially somewhat intelligible to Mandarin, although strongly influenced by Min-nan and Yue, they were believed to have migrated from Northern China between the 16th and the 17th century. They can all speak Mandarin Chinese, the lingua franca among all the Chinese dialects, but may be able to speak their own dialects as well, though their own dialects are rarely used in daily life even among those from the same region. www.sgwiki.com /wiki/Chinese_Singaporean   (2469 words)

The Asia Rice Foundation: Malaysia Rice Articles ONE of the last Chinese clans to arrive in Malaya, the Hainanese, a distinct dialect group, came to be known for their prowess in the kitchen. Another version of folk history has it that the Hainanese men ended up as cooks because, traditionally, it was their womenfolk who toiled in the fields back home, while the men stayed indoors. Dominating the kitchens of their colonial masters at the turn of the 20th century, the Hainanese were adept cooks who not only learnt to prepare Western food, but created local dishes to suit European taste buds, giving birth to dishes such as chicken chop, macaroni pie, chicken pie and chicken and lamb stew. www.asiarice.org /sections/whatsnew/Malaysia9.html   (993 words)

PapiMami: Kaki Lang I never got to learn the Hainanese dialect when I was a kid. As Hainanese speakers are getting less and less, we didn't really want to lose the Hainanese dialect, and lose our 'root'. A language is the root of an ethnic group or race. papimami.blogspot.com /2005/09/kaki-lang.html   (351 words)

Chinese in Singapore - QuickSeek Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19) They speak Hokkien, a Min-nan dialect, which is comprehensible to Teochew, and to a lesser extent, Hainanese speakers. Unlike the Hokkien, Teochew and the Hainanese, the Cantonese speak a dialect belonging to the Yue family. Of them, the majority are Hainanese, from Hainan, speaking Hainanese, a Min-nan dialect with its roots from the Hokkien dialect. singaporeanchinese.quickseek.com   (3942 words)

Ethnic Chinese in Cambodia The majority of Chinese temples in Cambodia were built by dialect groups, often to venerate gods which had held particular sway in their native place. The trail-blazer of Hainanese emigration to Kampot was a man named Mac Cuu, a Ming patriot who arrived in Cambodia in 1675 and built up such wealth and reputation that he was appointed a provincial governor (oknya) by the Cambodian king in 1708 (Willmott 1967:6). Seen as the ancestor of Hainanese, Bentougong worship has had the dual effect of strengthening Hainanese dialect group difference and rooting the groups firmly in the Cambodian landscape. www.cascambodia.org /chinese_cam.htm   (12080 words)

Amongst Other Things: Speak Your Dialect? However, now a think-tank has recommended that we bring back teevee programming in dialect and the claim is that "dialect is still with us; it is part of our cultural heritage, through the older generation". However, his comments spurred me on to learn that dialect because at the end of the day, I am proud to be Cantonese the same way I am proud of my heritage (whatever that means). And so, the use of dialects, deemed so much a part of "our cultural heritage", had been downgraded and devalued so much during the past two decades that we use it only when we feel like swearing. www.amongstotherthings.com /2003/02/speak_your_dialect.html   (2040 words)

List of Chinese dialects: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19) Beijing dialect The dialect of Chinese spoken in Beijing and adopted as the official language for all of China Shanghai dialect A dialect of Chinese spoken in the Yangtze delta Suzhou dialect Suzhou dialect (/ ; pinyin: su zhou hua) is a dialect of wu, one of the subdivisions of chinese spoken language.... www.absoluteastronomy.com /l/list_of_chinese_dialects   (656 words)

My Name is Mandrake / Know your roots Anyway, I recognised that dialect as its mine so on the way out to the toilet, I conviniently asked the lady, “heh, are you a Hainanese too?”. turns out that there were a few other Hainanese in that office and she went on to tell me who there were after verifying from the shape of my head that I am one. i recall back the hainanese i’ve met..yeah..many of the men do have high forehead..haha..true hah..they say the hainanese guys are good looking..i absolutely agree with it..yeah.. mandrake.liquidblade.com /archives/2005/03/17/know-your-roots   (813 words)

Chinese in Singapore   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19) The Chinese in Singapore belong to several linguistic-cultural dialect groups, originating from mainly the southern parts of China. They can all speak Standard Mandarin Chinese, the lingua franca among all the Chinese dialects, and are able to speak their own dialects as well, though their own dialects are rarely used in daily life even among those from the same region. A backbone of folk Chinese culture among southern Chinese dialect groups, Taoism was once a popular belief held by many Chinese, Taoist beliefs has witnessed a sharp decline from the 1970s onwards, as most of the younger-generation, Chinese Singaporeans abstain from folk beliefs, viewing that superstitious beliefs would do harm to them. www.greenvalenyus.com /profile/Singaporean_Chinese   (4334 words)

Pinyin - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography For Min Nan dialects in Fujian and Taiwan Although the ROC government has stated the desire to use romanization rather than zhuyin in education, the lack of agreement on which form of pinyin to use and the huge logistical challenge of teacher training has stalled these efforts. Guangdong Romanization is a set of romanizations devised by the government of Guangdong province for Cantonese, Teochew, Hakka (Moiyen dialect), and Hainanese. www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Pinyin   (4024 words)

Ethnologue report for language code:nan Shantou and Chenhai varieties of the Chao-shan dialect are considered to be cultured. Population includes 736,000 speakers of Hokkien, 28.8% of the population (1993), 360,000 speakers of Teochew (1985), 14.2% of the population (1993); 74,000 speakers of Hainanese (1985), 2.9% of the population (1993). The Hokkien dialect is the most widely understood in Singapore (Kuo 1979). www.ethnologue.com /show_language.asp?code=nan   (407 words)

yannisms ahoy! » Blog Archive » A post about being Hainanese It helps, too, that people always say that Hainanese girls are pretty, that we have nice eyes (hur hur hur, no mention of the men though). I like it that the dialect doesn’t sound too coarse, and that it has not been mangled to death by expletives-spouting NS boys. When I was a kid, I used to bask in the glory of it, because everyone who had just found out about my surname would inevitably ask me, “Which Chinese word is it?” And after I had explained it to them that yes, it is Dragon (roarrr!), their eyes would widen in astonishment. yannisms.com /archives/2005/06/30/a-post-about-being-hainanese   (840 words)

Historic Chinese Architecture in Singapore: June 2005 Founding dialect group - Hainanese; Main diety - Kuanyin; status - needs conservation There are not much resources on the history of this temple which was built 2 years after the Hainan Tinhou (Mazu) temple in Beach Road. There used to be a small Hainanese Kampung around the hill in the early days of this hillock and hence the founding of the temple. This is the only historical Hainanese temple left in Singapore, I strongly urge the authorities to give it a conservation status. nanyangtemple.blogspot.com /2005_06_01_nanyangtemple_archive.html   (818 words)

List of Chinese dialects - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19) The following is a list of major Chinese dialects. In addition to the dialects given below, it is customary to speak informally of dialects belonging to each province, e.g. These designations do not always correspond to classifications used by linguists, but each nevertheless has approximate, stereotypical characteristics of its own. www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/List_of_Chinese_dialects   (156 words)

China History Forum, chinese history forum > Hainanese Dialect Sep 30 2005, 09:38 PM Hainanese is considered to be a dialect of the Minnan group. Hainanese is considered to be a dialect of the Minnan group. The only problem is that Min dialects are very much unintelligible with each other (I mean like Minbei is unintelligible with Minnan which is unintelligible with a lot of other Min dialects like Teochew). www.chinahistoryforum.com /lofiversion/index.php/t7525.html   (1700 words)

Chinese in Singapore - China-related Topics CE-CH - China-Related Topics The Teochews speak the Chaozhou dialectTeochew, a Min-nan dialect, which is much comprehensible to the Hokkiens. Since their dialect was initially somewhat intelligible to Mandarin (linguistics)Mandarin, although strongly influenced by Min-nan and Yue, they were believed to have migrated from Northern China between the 16th and the 17th century. Upon the demise of a relative, a funeral ceremony is normally held in the church, though funeral ceremonies may be allowed at HDB void decks. www.famouschinese.com /virtual/Chinese_in_Singapore   (2536 words)

Theta sorority, sigma theta, delta sigma, radcliffe institute, alumnae association, alumnae services, alumnae chapter, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19) The question of whether these should be called dialects or languages in their own right is particularly interesting in Chinese. On the one hand, the designation seems to be as much socio-political as linguistic, reflecting Max Weinreich's comment that "a language is a dialect with an army and a navy." Purely from a linguistic point of view, many of these idioms seem to meet the criteria of a language. Because the written language is grammatically closest to Standard Mandarin, many Chinese speakers view Standard Mandarin as "the Chinese language", and everything else as dialects. www.globalalumnae.com /wiki3-List_of_Chinese_dialects   (315 words)

Historic Chinese Architecture in Singapore: July 2005 Founding dialect group - Hainanese; Main diety - Mazu; status - demolished and rebuilt The Hainanese community is one of the smaller dialect groups in Singapore. Interestingly, the Hainanese language itself is related to the Hokkien dialect group. Founding dialect group - Cantonese ; Main diety - Monkey God ; status - demolished,1880 bronze bell at the rebuilt Peck San Theng. nanyangtemple.blogspot.com /2005_07_01_nanyangtemple_archive.html   (1395 words)

Belly Button Window: Hainan - Does This Name Strike a Bell? I grew up with the sweet song-like sounds of the Hainanese dialect, one of the smallest regional groups of overseas Chinese. Linguists say the Hainanese dialect is a sub-dialect of Min, also known as Hokkien or Fujianese, spoken in Taiwan and the province of Fujian - of course, the tongue that the more pro-independent minded Taiwanese and ignorant western media called the "Taiwanese language". Of course, we free-willed Hainanese say this is nonsense, we speak the Hainanese and no other tongues are quite as unique as ours... www.bellybuttonwindow.com /archives/000380.html   (2458 words)

Hainanese - Page 2 - Chinese-forums.com So the "small n" is not that important to distinguish a dialect from another dialect of the same language ie. I am sure hainanese use these words which are unique to hokkien dialects only. In Wu dialects, the nasal vowel either disappears becoming just a pure vowel (like in Japanese) or it develops a velar ending (ng) from Standard Mandarin influence. www.chinese-forums.com /showthread.php?p=41258   (590 words)

5Xmom - Humour, Life, Lies, Sex » A Christian in a temple Some Hainanese cooks first served in European and Straits Chinese households before branching out to open their own coffeeshops and restaurants. I had often proudly proclaimed myself a Hainanese whose father sailed to Malaya with his eldest brother in a sampan, braving the rough seas (and pirates). I think of all the different dialect group, Hainaneses are the most mild ones. chanlilian.net /?p=491   (989 words)

Brothers keep firewood, charcoal trade 'burning' IT was his native Hainanese dialect that landed a former teacher from China in the firewood and charcoal fuel business. Sooi Booi Khim of Hainan, China, who came to Malaya in the late 1930s set up the business in Brick-fields in 1953 on a special request from a relative who ran a restaurant in Kuala Lumpur. "Speaking only in his native Hainanese with a smattering of Cantonese, my father managed to get business from restaurants which were mainly dominated by natives of Hainan island off the coast of mainland China," said Eddie, 34. www.recyclingpoint.com.sg /Articles/1992june23-Brotherskeepfirewood.htm   (497 words)

Goh v MB Melwani Pte Ltd [HC,S'pore] She is illiterate and could only speak the Hainanese dialect. Madam Wee said that the entire document was explained to her in Hokkien, sentence by sentence. Having so explained to the plaintiff, Madam Wee again explained the document in English to her son, who then interpreted it in Hainanese to his mother. www.ipsofactoj.com /archive/1990/Part06/arc1990(6)-004.htm   (4960 words)

Asia Finest Discussion Forum > Hainan?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19) I haven't met any Sino-Cambodians that are Hainanese though, most of them are Teo-Chew. May 11 2004, 01:11 AM my neighbor who is a sino-khmer looks almost 100% chinese but they speak both chinese and khmer fluently. Sep 10 2004, 09:04 AM it may be to late to say it now but im was born in hainan. www.asiafinest.com /forum/lofiversion/index.php/t7337.html   (3039 words)

The World of Hainan: Ethnic Cultures and Languages Directory I have met Hlai people who refuse to speak Hainanese but will readily speak Mandarin (putonghua) -- their loyalty to China allows them to speak the standard Han language (putonghua) but reject the dialect of the Han in Hainan. Further down are links to sites about the languages of Hainan (including Hainanese) and How to Count to Ten in Hainan. Ethnologue Report for Minnan (dialect of Chinese) This dialect includes the language known as 'Hainanese'. www.hainan-world.com /dir/hainanethnic.html   (1458 words)

Bounce Back To Life: The Comic With Hainanese Dialogue But I thought it would be interesting to present the dialogue in a romanised version of the Hainanese dialect. That's a refreshing drawing with the ladies speaking Hainanese. Don't understand the dialect though, only cantonese and a little bit of Hokkien/Teochew. hutdugaikarsui.blogspot.com /2006/03/comic-with-hainanese-dialogue.html   (430 words)

Hainanese Dialect - China History Forum, chinese history forum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19) China History Forum is an online chinese history forum, discussion board or community for all who are interested in learning and discussing chinese history from prehistoric till modern times, including chinese art of war, chinese culture topics. It could be the geography, or it could be different influences from different indigenous peoples. The Minnan language is just one with partially intelligible "dialects" under it like Xiamen, Chaozhou, Hainan... www.chinahistoryforum.com /index.php?showtopic=7525   (1424 words)

SPUG Forums - Kopi, siu dai   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19) I noticed if you just place an order, they would put in about 3 teaspoons of suagr, together with condense milk. siu dai actually means less sugar in a particular dialect but not sure which. Pretty weird if sui dai is hainanese when kah dai sounds more like cantonese. www.spug.net /showthread.php?t=38124   (668 words)

Once Upon a Time in Copenhagen » Blog Archive » Singapore Sling   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19) We ended up strolling down to Raffles Hotel (the most famous house in town), where we managed to find the “Long Bar”, and decided to try out one of the famous Singapore Sling. It is a pink “ladies drink” drink invented back in 1915 by a chinese bartender of Hainanese dialect at this very hotel (or so the story tells, anyways). The setting was great with a very colonial feeling to the whole place, and the drink was not as sweet as rumored. home.macvaerk.dtu.dk /~lilbaek/blog?p=15   (332 words)

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