Wah, thanks sifu's but ... one year ago leh

Anyway forgot to update here, got good news got bad news. We asked around and the good news is managed to find the poem!!!! So my brother's kid now got the proper middle name from the poem.

The bad news ... the kid is the last name in the poem, lol ... so when the kid got his own kids then I dunno how to find the continuation liao

I didn't use the 家谱 naming system for my child. becoz the naming sifu said the name is not good for my child.

=) how to say "send" in hainan?
izit "gek"?

This post has been edited by yukito86: Apr 26 2016, 07:30 PM

kia3

anyone knows 怀 in hainanese pronunciation?

kua1 niam 怀念

This post has been edited by lengzhai: May 20 2016, 05:41 PM

挂念？
thanks anyway...

actually this is quite interesting...

I will ask someone since im going to kl hainan association tonight.

This post has been edited by lengzhai: May 20 2016, 07:25 PM

挂念 is not a word, its from cantonese.

it should be kua niam. 怀念

I am sure of niam, like niam-geng...but anyway thanks
Do you know of any web sites that can look for more reading of hainanese?

to be honest I'm not sure. However if you go to Thean Hou Temple, you can ask them. I think they did some Hainanese language classes before.

Just stumbled across this thread. Pure hainanese reporting in.
I'm from Penang by the way. Any Hainanese from Penang here?

I am from BM, hainanese also..
It's been sometime since I last spoke hainanese after the passing of my grandma 5 years ago..

Nice.. I actually know a lot of Hainanese in Penang. Grew up in a Hainanese kampung area at Batu Feringghi. I pretty much spoke Hainanese since young with my kampung frens and I speak Hainanese at home with my parents.
Not staying with my parents anymore but I would say my spoken Hainanese is still good. I think

Hi!am new here.
Any malacca hainanese here?

That 怀 should be Hwai1

As for 挂 should be Gua, which is thinking off.

I asked the teacher at Hainan Association at KL she said Gua Niam.

它的造音相似怀孕。
Gua Kia

maybe can refer to her for more info.

Let me ask some senior.

Kia is 仔 isn't it ?

I remember 十月怀胎 is Tap Guay Hwai Hai

I still stand that 怀 is either read as Hwai or Ywai depends on different pronunciation.

Kua could be 裹

Hainanese uses lot of ancient wording such as Chopsticks as 箸 du & Egg as 卵 nui.

So can't use more modern language like Cantonese to interprete.

thanks, ancient words, l like them
I expected it sounded like hwai also

Hi,

I'm looking for a place called Qinglan Se (I was told verbally and it sounds like "ching lan si") with a nearby village called "Beh Tu".

Hope someone can point me to where this place is.

Thanks!

This post has been edited by My Liang: Jun 11 2016, 06:07 PM