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Apr 12, 2008 Amoy (Xiamen) is a Southern Min dialect which originally comes from .... The Swadesh word list, developed by the linguist Morris Swadesh,
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Negative particles Negative particle syntax is parallel to Standard Mandarin about 70% of the time. Here is a fairly complete description (parallel usage to Mandarin is bolded): 不 - is not + noun (Mandarin: 不) : 伊不是阮老母 She is not my mother. 不 - does not + verb/will not + verb...
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Definition of Amoy in the Online Dictionary. Meaning of Amoy. Pronunciation of Amoy. Translations of Amoy. Amoy synonyms, Amoy antonyms. Information about Amoy in the free online English dictionary and encyclopedia. Amoy - any of the forms of Chinese spoken in Fukien province...
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Amoy (Xiamen) is a language/dialect which originally comes from Southern Fujian province (in Southeast China), in the area centered around the city of Xiamen. It is highly similar to Taiwanese, and is widely known as Hokkien in Southeast Asia. Amoy is widely considered to be the prestige dialect...
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Amoy (Xiamen) is a language/dialect which originally comes from Southern Fujian province (in Southeast China), in the area centered around the city of Xiamen. Spoken Amoy and Taiwanese are both mixtures of Zhangzhou and Quanzhou speech. As such, they are very closely aligned phonologically.
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Amoy (linguistics) edition of Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia...
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Many dictionaries have been published. One, Rev. William Campbell's A Dictionary of the Amoy Vernacular, spoken throughout the prefectures of Chin-chiu, Chiang-chiu and Formosa 廈門音新字典, Ē-MN̂G IM Ê JĪ-TIÁN), published 1913, is still in use today in Taiwan.
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Amoy (Xiamen) is a language/dialect which originally comes from Southern Fujian, in the area centered around the city of Xiamen. It is almost identical to Taiwanese, and is widely known as Hokkien in Southeast Asia. Spoken Amoy preserves many of the sounds and words from Middle Chinese.
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Taiwanese (pe̍h-oē-jī: Tâi-oân-oē or Tâi-gí; traditional Chinese: 臺灣話, 臺語; pinyin: Táiwānhuà, Táiyǔ) is a variant of Amoy Min Nan Chinese spoken by about 70% of Taiwan's population. Taiwanese is a variant of Amoy Min Nan.
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Official language in: None (Legislative bills have been proposed for Taiwanese (Amoy Southern Min) to be one of the 'national languages' in the Republic of China); Southern Fujian is home to three main Amoy accents. They are known by the geographic locations to which they correspond:
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