Hmm im just asking .. Fukien Chinese speak Hakka dialect? thats becos my mom is 50% cambodian 50% Fukien Chinese and she said that her farther was from that area but later settled down in Rach Gia where he fund my moms mom I think i would like learn that language...

Huh u said the f-word

what F-word?

There are three Chinese dialects spoken in the province of Fujian - Minnan, Minbei, and Kejia (Hakka).

Hmm now its getting harder to know which kind of chinese he spoke

Hmm useally to say in chinese like Suk fan (eat dinner) its jip bun in his kind of chinese hope u can help me Kulong its a interesting story to find out about my grandfarther

I know in Taiwan's Minnanhua, "to eat" is called "j@p bun". I'm going to guess that he speaks Minnan.

That's a nice visual. However, I failed to see why can't Mongol and other minority languages be considered as "Chinese dialects" since they're a part of Chinese identity. Westerners really need to relearn the difference between Chinese, Han, and Mandarin.

err, well I think eat is more like "ja" than "j@p". In Minnan you don't really add -t, -k....etc like in Cantonese.

thx for the help..

Minnan Hua. Fujianese. I speak it.

You say Ja bong. But it is hard to write out in English.

Most Chinese say Chi fan. Not sek fan, that is Cantonese, who are only 3% of China's pop.

:genius: Finally someone who posted here about Fu jian hua !

Chi Fan is Chinese Mandarin !
Chinese Fukien or Hokkein Ue is the largest Chinese dialect spoken in the Philippines!

Well, it is jia pung, We always say Di jia be?

Philippines? isn't the popular dialect chinese language Cantonese in the philippines not Hokkien Chinese?

Well Cantonese is also popular but according to statistics it ranks third after Chinese Fookien , Chinese Mandarin.

I don't believe "popular" is the right word to use. It's not like these people were given a choice on which dialect they wish to speak when they were born. They usually grow up speaking whatever their family speaks. So instead of saying "popular", you should say "common".

Okey!
Stand corrected!

there are more hokkien speakers here rather than cantonese

Yup! That is true