that is no hokkien pronounciation. Stop your pretense. You suck at it.

y so serious?

hokkien lang will grow larger la....

no. the jomon were paleolithic, meaning they were over 5000 years old, going through the ice age and stuff.

in contrast, the wu at most goes back to 1000 bc. unless the spring and autumn annals included a long ice age winter, then probably not.

also, xu fu is not an ancestor deity.

actually the whole royal family is technically german. due to the intermarriages, most of the protestant monarchs are cousins. e.g. upon ww1, the brit king and german kaisers were cousins.

This post has been edited by empyreal: Aug 19 2013, 09:37 AM

Also sudu & garfu words are from Portuguse.

I heard George Washington was also hokkien..

Korea Sudah Claim....

Not only Germans, but French (Normans), Vikings and Celtics. bastards royals.

Abe Heck Masuk

Acid trip tered still going strong...

actually normans (basically the ruling house of most of northern europe) are pretty much vikings.

so you have normans ruling gauls in france and anglo-saxons in england. liken a very complicated age of empires game lol

Today fujian are demoted to an indigenous pirates race which shows us how ignorant mainland chinese are.

The hokkien were one of the earliest ethic race to migrate away from china to foreign land. It was the case in malaysia too.

When sun yat sen wanted to choose a official language for china , the were too few supporters who propagated hokkien because most were not in mainland anymore.

So Jay Chou, Jackie Chan must be English or Americans?

I studied Japanese before. I can briefly explain:

When the Japanese imported Chinese characters (kanji), they also imported the pronunciations.
Every kanji has two types of pronunciation - on (Chinese pronunciation) & kun (original Japanese pronunciation)

example:
新
on pronunciation is shin;
kun pronunciation is atarashi

新幹線 Shinkansen (New Trunk Line) - all 3 kanjis in on pronunciation
Kono kuruma wa atarashii desu (This car is new) - 'new' in kun pronunciation

This is how Chinese pronunciation sipped into Japanese. But Japanese language is completely different from Chinese.

if not mistaken, mandarin was not the main dialect of the han chinese. it was only popularized after the manchus took over. feel free to correct me if i am wrong

i agree its different and have different meaning to it as well, but it does bear similarities at least. It is most likely they borrowed a bit of the language from chinese to develop their own language, for example, not all English words we know are originally English , some is taken from french ,etc. Im guessing it goes the same for japnese.

I didnt say that japanese language is chinese language.

i am saying japanese culture are literally a carbon copy of qin which plays a major part in every aspect of their life and many of its inhabitants today are yayoi(related to qin) rather than jomon even though japanese is spoken.

The problem is that hakka dont refer themselves as fu / hok. He went there and named the place after fu eg. fuji, fukuoka, fukui and etc. which literal mean blessed and only in later part was named after the race.

as a hokkien myself..not a fork was given...

eh what's mau diau..? me not hakka ler..

is new zealand hakka dance influence by hokkien too?

han too ah originated from chinese, japanese originated from the chinese, i bet africans oso originated from the chinese...