My dream is to study Taiwanese Hokkien in Taipei.
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Hokkien
//ˈhɒkiɛn//
Synonyms for "hokkien" (5 found)
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32 translations across 16 languages.
Burmese
2 entries- လက်ရှည်စကား name (dialect of the Chinese language)
- အင်္ကျီရှည်စကား name (dialect of the Chinese language)
Chinese
4 entries- 咱人話 /咱人话 name (dialect of the Chinese language)
- 咱厝話 /咱厝话 name (dialect of the Chinese language)
- 河洛話 /河洛话 name (dialect of the Chinese language)
- 福佬話 /福佬话 name (dialect of the Chinese language)
Chinese Cantonese
4 entries- 福佬話 /福佬话 name (dialect of the Chinese language)
- 福建話 /福建话 name (dialect of the Chinese language)
- 閩南話 /闽南话 name (dialect of the Chinese language)
- 閩南語 /闽南语 name (dialect of the Chinese language)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 福佬話 /福佬话 name (dialect of the Chinese language)
- 福建話 /福建话 name (dialect of the Chinese language)
- 閩南語 /闽南语 name (dialect of the Chinese language)
Dutch
1 entries- Hokkien name (dialect of the Chinese language)
Farefare
1 entries- fukkenne name (dialect of the Chinese language)
Hakka Chinese
1 entries- 學老話 /学老话 name (dialect of the Chinese language)
Indonesian
1 entries- bahasa Hokkien name (dialect of the Chinese language)
Japanese
1 entries- 福建語 name (dialect of the Chinese language)
Khmer
2 entries- ចិនហុកគៀន name (dialect of the Chinese language)
- ហុកកៀន name (dialect of the Chinese language)
Malay
1 entries- bahasa Hokkien name (dialect of the Chinese language)
Portuguese
1 entries- hokkien name (dialect of the Chinese language)
Russian
3 entries- фуцзя́ньский name (dialect of the Chinese language)
- фуцзяньхуа́ name (dialect of the Chinese language)
- хо́ккиен name (dialect of the Chinese language)
Tagalog
1 entries- Fukien name (dialect of the Chinese language)
Thai
1 entries- ภาษาจีนฮกเกี้ยน name (dialect of the Chinese language)
Vietnamese
2 entries- tiếng Mân Nam name (dialect of the Chinese language)
- tiếng Phúc Kiến name (dialect of the Chinese language)
Sample sentences
15 total sentences available.
My Chinese-Filipino friend Philip grew up in North America, but he speaks the family language of Hokkien. His family hailed from Cebu Island.
Source: tatoeba (10589835)
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.
Source: tatoeba (10621572)
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.
Source: tatoeba (10680431)
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