I speak Hakka but these are not the ways to say these words in
Hakka in Singapore.
For mandarin, we can use hanyu pinyi to help us to pronounciate
the chinese characters from Primary school.
For Hakka, I learn to speak them by remembering how the elders
say them. Is there really a pronounication system used for Hakka
words ?
For English Language, basically we learnt how to pronounicate
the English by remembering how the teachers, news readers say the
words.
There is the international phoentic pronounication system that
can be used to help us to pronounicate the English words but
strangely the system is not taught to Primary, Secondary and JC
students in Singapore. It has been puzzling why is the system not
taught to students in Singapore.
ya, on top of the above ways, there are the some other ways
(like Singaporean) respectively are:
Mandarin:
你喜歡吃什麽？
Hakka: (ngi fon hi sit mak
ke)
Mandarin:
吃早餐
Hakka: (sit
zau)
Mandarin:
真好吃
Hakka: (hau hau
sit)
Mandarin:
謝謝
Hakka: (to
ts'ia)
Mandarin:
晚上一起吃晚飯好嗎？
Hakka: (am
pu it ha sit ia hau mau)
etc.
Generally there originally is many variations of Hakka already,
therefore slight different usage of vocabulary and tones. Luckily,
the different varieties of Hakka used in Singapore is still
mutually intelligible due to large number of ancestors from
T'ai Pu , Ho P'o
and Moi Yen.
The pronunciation scheme used above is exactly from the video
clip pronounced.
Standard Hakka dictionary published in China for the linguists
uses the IPA while those targetted for the mass
literati uses a modified form of Hanyu Pinyin. Hakka
tools published in Taiwan tends to use their own haphazard
system based on closest approximate pronunciation or
based on Zhuyin Fuhao.
