Hami su beh sai meh? Kar chey Penang lang kong. Hami tai si Johor hokkien?

hami tai is my granma teach one. wuhahahah

not sure johor ppl understand onot?

"hami su" in hokkein is meaning "what slide?"

Ok kamsiah kamsiah. Learn new Hokkien word.

Klang is a hokkien city. ppl speak southern hokkien in Klang. Elsewhere all cantonese.

Interesting I heard more mandarin in SG 10 years ago amongst youngsters. Today I hear far more English there.

Agree on cantonese and KL part.

On johor bit, it's true that hokkien and teochew look down on own dialect and therefore choose to pass on only mandarin to children. Johor is malaysia's mandarin speaking capital. Melaka is the same.....sad

100% agree. To summarise

Hokkien-> mandarin speaking
Hokkien -> cantonese speaking (in Klang valley)
Hakka -> Cantonese (in Klang valley and canto speaking areas)

Hokkien and Hakka people not proud of own language?

all MALAYSIAN use hokkien when cursing regardless of race.

hokkien give us the most beautiful words when it comes to cursing.

this is true ...i like use hokkien words to scold / curse ppl..
it's so smooth

Kia walang ki chuai kay ki meh ai mai? Mincai penang u bo

no offence, but i also experience some very rude hokkien people, so, i guess, cant say that all cantonese people lcly and i cant say that all hokkien very rude. so please respect

yup,the 1st thing i learn from hokkien is the cursing part

its really nice to use leh,hehe

plus,if people curse you,you'll also know what

all i know is kl/pj mostly cantonese, but klang all hokkien. but all can speak mandarin.

Anyway, no matter Hokkien or Cantonese, Chinese are united by Mandarin. Thank God Shih Huang Ti made that effort else Chinese language status would be like Indian and Bahasa. Diverse but not nothing unifying.

I'm hokkien but when i met my friend from KL i speak cantonese and they so surprised " u can speak canton ??" .. I lolzzz

I don't think so.

Sabahan don't really use that because they do not know Hokkien in the first place.

Some of them only know Hokkien curse words when they study in peninsular.

Are you really sure Mandarin existed in those days?

Especially during Shih Huang Ti era.

It's a fate suffered by all Chinese dialects. Lookup diglossia on wikipedia. Standard Mandarin is the official / literary / "high" language.

Is not about pride or what. Remember most of them speak their own dialect in their home. This is what we call as language assimilation. In penang there are lots of cantonese ppl who do not know how to speak cantonese properly but speak fluent hokkien. As i said, it regional and nothing to do with pride.

Most importantly, nowadays people don't really cares about their ancestry and its language. They care about $ and survival in a remote place.

This is something funny that people tends to label another bad person based on their appearance, ancestry etc.

If a chinese cheat another non chinese person money, the conman will be labeled as "chinese cheater" instead of conman.

Same to ancestry problem, people tends to label hakka and super stingy, selfish, hokkien as endless greed, cantonese as rude and noisy blah blah blah.

In the end, it is something individual and has nothing to do with our ancestry as a whole

wa lang hokkien lang chin ya gao eh...

Hakka more in Sabah, KK