Selamat Petang kepada Penghulu.
I understand you what you mean. It is like now
Singaporean Hokkiens of whatever descent speaks common Singaporean
Hokkien of Amoy cluster with only sprinkling of traces of original
dialectal variation. That means, Southern Malaya
Hokkiens of whatever descent now speaks common Southern Malaysian
Hokkien of Eng Choon variety of the Chuanchew cluster, I take
it to mean that.
I myself was just commented by someone (about 15 minutes ago)
that I do not speak Quemoy Hokkien. She said I speak
Hokkien like everyone else (Amoy-type). I acknowledge
that. My Quemoy influences are minimal. I
elaborate another time.
Selamat petang, Guru Bangul.
You get what I mean. Basically most of the southern states (from
southern Perak and Trengganu down) speaks the Eng Choon variety
with the Quemoy cluster in Kelang area. Even that the Quemoy in
Kelang is high infused with Eng Choon. The Northern state of
Kelantan, Kedah, Penang still strongly retain their Chiangchew.
Now even the so call Angkway is fading away as there is no
longer a sua teng in Sg. Amoy is the predominant one now (although
it is dying from national Mandarin campaign). The Amoy dialect is
near extinction in PRC and Taiwan. After another generation in Sg,
by then the Amoy dialect it will be history. May be if it can
survive, likely in Manila or Cebu if ever.
Ok another word huai lang li lor tik is Amoy equivalent to huai
ka li ke in Quemoy.
