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	Chinese dialect
		Mandarin: This is the mother dialect of Chinese living in Northern China and Sichuan province.
		The local dialect is generally considered more intimate and is used among close family members and friends and in everyday conversation within the local area.
		Knowing the local dialect is of considerable social benefit and most Chinese who permanently move to a new area will attempt to pick up the local dialect.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ch/Chinese_dialect.html (1120 words)

	Teochew (dialect) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Chaozhou language, also called Teochew, Teochiu, Tiuchiu, or Diojiu, is a dialect of the Chinese spoken variant of Minnan 閩南, spoken in the Chaoshan 潮汕 region of eastern Guangdong 廣東.
		None of the southern Min dialects has a front rounded vowel, therefore a typical Chaozhou accent supplants the unrounded counterpart [i] for [y].
		Database of Pronunciations of Chinese Dialects (in English, Chinese and Japanese)
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Teochew_(dialect) (2501 words)

	Teochew (dialect) - Chinese linguistics and dialect - Chinese
		Teochew (dialect) - Chinese linguistics and dialect - Chinese
		The Teochew dialect (Diô-jiǔ-oē, Chinese:潮州话, Hanyu Pinyin: Cháozhōuhuà, Teochiu or Tiuchiu), is a Chinese language and dialect of Minnan spoken in a region of eastern Guangdong refered to as Chaoshan.
		Teochew is a member of Min-nanSouthern Min group, one of the divisions of Chinese spoken languagespoken Chinese.
	www.famouschinese.com /virtual/Teochew_(dialect) (790 words)

	Qwika - similar:Guangdong_Romanization
		Standard Cantonese is a variant, and is generally considered the prestige dialect of Cantonese Chinese.
		The Teochew dialect, also called Teochiu, Tiuchiu, Chaozhou or Diojiu, is a dialect of the Chinese spoken variant of Minnan, spoken in the Chaoshan...
		The phonology of Standard Mandarin is based on that of the Beijing dialect, which belongs to Mandarin, a large and very diverse group of Chinese dialects spoken across northern and southwestern China.
	www.qwika.com /rels/Guangdong_Romanization (1173 words)

	TODAYonline (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		WHILE snatches of dialect are occasionally used in Parliament to add some colloquial colour to the debate, I look forward to the day when MPs are allowed to make a full dialect speech in the House.
		The impact, reach and resonance of dialect on a significant greying segment of the population is not unknown to the Government.
		One only has to flashback to the days of Sars in 2003, when dialect was consciously revived and employed by grassroots leaders and MPs to reach out to their constituents with crucial health advisories.
	www.todayonline.com /articles/157004print.asp (795 words)

	Chinese Language in Bangkok in Bangkok
		The distinction between a language and a dialect is surprisingly unclear.
		Linguists joke that "a language is a dialect with an army and a navy." Meaning that national identity plays a big role in what people think of as one or the other.
		However, Teochew is NOT to be considered as a common language in Bangkok anymore because most of sino-thai aged 40 years old or younger couldn't use Teochew to converse anymore.
	www.sgtowns.com /journal/000718.html (1129 words)

	Teochews Can Take Pride in Successes
		Since at least the 1800s, Chinese immigrants speaking the Teochew dialect have moved to many regions of Southeast Asia in search of a better life.
		The Teochews are like the other coastal communities in China in the provinces of Guangzhou, Fujian and Zhejiang, who because of natural disasters, societal unrest and poor economic conditions, decided to leave home in search of a better living.
		Teochew culture dates back to the Tang dynasty, when the famous poet and intellectual Han Yu went to the Teochew area.
	yaleglobal.yale.edu /display.article?id=2875 (1437 words)

	Teochew language and pronunciation
		Teochew originated in the Chaoshan region of Guangdong province, China.
		Teochew is also spoken in Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam, Cambodia and Thailand.
		Teochew is a dialect of Southern Min, a Sinitic language.
	www.omniglot.com /writing/teochew.htm (233 words)

	LifeStory » Blog Archive » Dialect groups in Singapore — a dying trend?
		Which is quite a pity, since each dialect has its down set of culture, traditions, values & beauty.
		Where before, everyone spoke their own dialect, now it’s common to hear British-accented-English & China-accented-Chinese sprouting out of the mouth of a 3 year old.
		Many of my peers, even if they are from a same dialect group parentage, find it queer to speak their own dialect.
	l-s.em-pathy.net /?p=469 (501 words)

	Teochew (dialect) RSS Feed for Wikipedia powered by BlinkBits.com
		Classification Chaozhou is a member of the Southern Min or Minnan dialect group, which in turn constitutes one of the seven major dialect groups of the Sinitic language family.
		The voiced alveolar affricate was originally a fricative sound in earlier Chaozhou and still is in some Chaoshan dialects.
		Tone Sandhi Intonation Grammar The grammar of Chaozhou is similar to southern Chinese dialects, especially with Hakka and Cantonese.
	www.blinkbits.com /en_wikifeeds_rss/Teochew_dialect (2614 words)

	Pushing for return of dialects: STAR
		In 1979, he launched the “Promote Mandarin” campaign to replace dialects, the common means of communication among the Chinese at the time.
		Singaporeans who had objected to the ban on dialects disagree, saying that dialects were a natural part of growing up and requires no study.
		Some Chinese say dialects should not be allowed to die if Singaporean Chinese were to retain their “Chineseness” over the long term.
	www.singapore-window.org /sw06/060122st.htm (914 words)

	Min Nan - Chinese linguistics and dialect - Chinese
		Both are often classified as dialects of the Chinese language (itself part of the Sino-Tibetan language family).
		Min Nan is spoken in the southern part of the southeastern ChinaChinese province of Fujian as well as by descendents of migrants from this province in Taiwan, Guangdong (around Chaozhou-Swatou, and Leizhou peninsula), Hainan, two counties in southern Zhejiang and Zhoushan archipelago offshore Ningbo.
		As Amoy is the principal city of southern Fujian, its dialect is the most important variant.
	www.famouschinese.com /virtual/Min_Nan (551 words)

	teochew - China History Forum, chinese history forum
		Teochew is the "Chao Zhou 潮洲 dialect" spoken around the region of Shantou (Swatow) in northern Guangdong province.
		Teochew dialect groups if I'm not wrong is the largest chinese dialect group in Thailand.
		In Hong Kong, Teochew is known as ChewChow (Chiu Chow), it is the second largest dialect group after Cantonese.
	www.chinahistoryforum.com /index.php?showtopic=10932&view=old (631 words)

	Asia Finest Discussion Forum > Chinese dialects (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		but if i were to speak a dialect most fluently it would be minnan b/c that's the dialect in which ihave the biggest vocabulary.
		Teochew Chinese make up the highest percentage of overseas Chinese in SE asia.
		She told me whenever she came across a customer who only spoke Taishanese, she has no idea what that person is saying, but the customer on the other end, while not able to speak Canto, doesn't appear to have too much difficulty understanding her...
	www.asiafinest.com /forum/lofiversion/index.php/t85587.html (1585 words)

	Chaozhou - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		For the Chaozhou dialect of the Chinese language, see Teochew (dialect).
		They spoke their own dialect amongst themselves, hence they stood out among the locals when almost everybody else spoke Cantonese in Hong Kong.
		The locals called them by the name "Chiu Chow Loun", where Chiu Chow is the Cantonese pronunciation of their origin, Chaozhou and Loun is the Teochew pronunciation of the word "people".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Teochew (685 words)

	Chinese is not spoken by over 1 billion people \| Antimoon Forum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		This is just not true, there are probably more dialects and languages in the the one Nation of China than in all of Europe, and most are not mutually intelligable.
		Yes, "dialects" are plentiful in China, mainly in the south.
		For example, my native dialect is Teochew but our Teochew conversation is peppered with many Mandarin expressions, especially when we are broaching upon themes or subjects with no Teochew equivalent.
	www.antimoon.com /forum/posts/8343.htm (1015 words)

	Ethnologue report for language code:nan
		Shantou and Chenhai varieties of the Chao-shan dialect are considered to be cultured.
		Population includes 1,824,741 in Peninsular Malaysia, 7,990 Teochew, 5,083 Hainanese, 24,604 Hokkien in Sabah (1980 census) 84,280 in Sarawak (1979).
		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).
	www.ethnologue.com /show_language.asp?code=nan (407 words)

	My Cultural Identity
		Basically, Teochew is a dialect spoken in southeastern China)) It is important to note that different regions of China speak different dialects, and therefore, possess a distinct culture.
		I was always aware, however, that Teochew was my native language because I would speak in Teochew with my father and other relatives.
		With my mother, on the other hand, although Teochew is her native language as well, I've always spoken Cantonese with her.
	mason.gmu.edu /~dtran/identity.html (774 words)

	Asia Finest Discussion Forum > Chieu Chow (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Anotehr interesting fact is that the teochew dialect is one of the dialects that has been claimed to be the "closests" to ancient Chinese...along with Hokkien (part of the Min branch of Chinese).
		I think Teochew is a dialect derived from the original Hokkien dialect.
		Some grammar points are different in chao zhou from other dialects and furthermore, some Chao Zhou words don't have the equivalent characters, so I would think a different set of characters are used for Chao Zhou words.
	www.asiafinest.com /forum/lofiversion/index.php/t9294-50.html (912 words)

	digThailand.com Thailand Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Isan (Northeastern Thai), the language of the Isan region of Thailand, is considered by some to be a dialect of the Lao language, which it very closely resembles (although it is written in the Thai alphabet).
		Most speakers of dialects and minority languages speak Central Thai as well, since it is the language used in schools and universities all across the kingdom.
		The Teochew Chinese, which constitute 56% of Thailand Chinese population, mainly settled in the region around Chao Phraya River in Bangkok.
	www.digthailand.com (2825 words)

	Will Spanish and Chinese overcome English? \| Antimoon Forum
		I cannot obviously be a Teochew, a Hokkien, a Hainanese or a Cantonese all at the same go.
		Ben, as far as I know, neither Teochew nor Hakka has been popularized in Guangdong and Hongkong, and according to an investigation, it was reported that Cantonese people don't like the pronunciations of Teochew and Hakka.
		In Shanghai, it is well-known that non-Shanghainese Chinese are regularly fleeced by the itinerant hawkers.
	www.antimoon.com /forum/t2262-150.htm (1924 words)

	Spero News: Bangkok's Chinese-Thai Catholics want Chinese Mass
		Many are business people quite at home in Thai culture, but they are also proud of their Chinese roots and some would like their younger generation to study Chinese.
		Chaozhou-speaking Chinese represent the largest Chinese dialect group in Thailand, where 95 percent of all people are Buddhists.
		The community was so flourishing years ago, he added with a smile, that some of the many hundreds who attended Sunday Mass had to stand outside the church because there was no room for them inside.
	www.speroforum.com /site/print.asp?idarticle=3507 (742 words)

	podcast BEIJING (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		I had a BBQ party at my house on Sunday and recorded lots of singing, guitar playing, and everyone talked into the mic (must've been the beer).
		In this podcast, you'll hear Mandarin, Cantonese, English, Hindi, Spanish, French, Korean, Japanese, Mongolian, Shanghainese, Malay (or is it Malaysian), and one other Chinese dialect that I don't know the name of.
		The one who was going to speak Malay at around 15:00 but didn't, the dialect that he spoke is hokkien.
	commalove.podomatic.com /entry/2006-04-16T17_17_49-07_00 (477 words)

	Midnight Monkey Monitor
		I came across this website Gaginang.org which was started by a group of Overseas Teochews mainly based in the United States who organize many classes and activities for its members.
		These Teochew diasporas have further spread its reach to the western hemisphere and unlike in our attempts to homogenize the Chinese population, they have no qualms about promoting their heritage.
		The writer is lucky that even though she is unable to speak Teochew, she has nonetheless found the abilities to speak cantonese.
	leafmonkey.blogspot.com (4669 words)

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		The young pastor, recently returned from America, was a great attraction to the youths of Mother Life Church which worshipped in the Teochew dialect, while many of our youths, being brought up in English schools, were unable to cope with their parents’ native Teochew: hence the exodus to the English Service.
		In those villages, his knowledge of Chinese dialects was put to excellent use.
		He spoke fluent Teochew, Hokkien, Hakka, Cantonese and Mandarin, to convey the Gospel message to the villagers.
	calvarypandan.org /pandan/sgbf-0904.doc (1342 words)

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