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Hokkien
"Hokkien" in a Sentence (15 examples)
My dream is to study Taiwanese Hokkien in Taipei.
My Chinese-Filipino friend Philip grew up in North America, but he speaks the family language of Hokkien. His family hailed from Cebu Island.
Learning Hokkien in its POJ Romanization might be interesting. There are at least 11 methods to write Hokkien. If Hokkien had a colour, it might be orange.
My ancestral Sinitic topolect has a long history of being written in the Latin alphabet. This writing is quite phonemic. It is the Hokkien language.
I read the article "Hokkien Chinese Borrowings in Tagalog."
I read the research paper "An Exploration of kinship terms of Hokkien Chinese-Indonesians in Surabaya."
Read the dissertation "Writing Taiwanese: The Pe̍h-ōe-jī Romanization and Identity Construction in Taiwan," about the Hokkien Sinitic topolect.
Read the article "The History of Peh-oe-ji," by Henning Klöter, about the history of the writing system of the Hokkien Sinitic topolect.
"Peh-oe-ji, Childish Writing?" by Wi-vun Taiffalo Chiung is an article about the orthography of the Hokkien Sinitic topolect.
Read the lessons in "Spoken Hokkien" by Meili Fang.
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Almost 90 percent of Taiwan's 6 million occupants at the end of World War II spoke Hokkien.
Because Hokkien is the most widely spoken local language (after Mandarin) in both Taiwan and Kinmen, this national language policy – when implemented in Kinmen – resulted in a different perceived language policy.
Under colonial rule, learning or speaking my grandma’s native Hokkien, along with dozens of indigenous languages, was illegal by law.
The awards celebrate not only Mandopop but also artists singing in Taiwanese - also known as Hokkien - Hakka and indigenous languages, a visible sign of the government's efforts to promote tongues other than Mandarin.
For quotations using this term, see Citations:Hokkien.
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