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The information in my webpage ultimately comes from the two sources listed at the bottom. It is a shame that there aren't many more books on minority dialect/languages available. Most of the books I have come from Hong Kong and China, bought when I visited there. However, I've not seen any with regards to learning Chaozhouhua at all. I know Chaozhouhua isn't Hokkien, but there is the occasional article here [1] The participant 'ong' posts links to sites with Minnan resources such as thesis and papers and other articles which may interest you. The romanisation scheme is one of the offial ones from the Guangdong Ministry of Education. I'm just someone interested in Chinese dialect pronunciations of characters, and not an expert at all. The Chinese page looks very good, keep up the good work.
BTW, if you go to | My preferences uncheck the Raw in the user profile, and this will allow people to access your talk page via an automatic link.
Cheers, Dylanwhs 09:43, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
Greetings! I would be most grateful if you would please expand and improve this article. - Kittybrewster 09:44, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
Fitzwilliam, please see my last response to your Helpdesk question. I am concerned that you may left with an incomplete understanding of German e. Marco polo 15:08, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
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I would like to ask: what does "Xieza" or "xieza" mean in Polish? I use this as an account name in Chinese Wikipedia and when I search it on the web, many sites with Polish sentences and .pl link ending appear. Could anybody tell me?--Fitzwilliam 04:13, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
Polish? The sites I get are all in Dutch talking about a Chinese guy. CCLemon-ここは寒いぜ! 02:39, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for your help. That's a funny word :)--Fitzwilliam 03:28, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
Got it the letter x is actually absent from the modern Polish alphabet, so the word "xieza" is not grammatically correct so I had to figure it out. But the letter X is often used during mathematics and science classses and then it is pronounced in polish as "ks" so xieza (xięża) is a rare short/funny/archaic word for księża (prular form of ksiądz) which means priests (usually catholic priests as most Poles are catholics). Mieciu K 16:36, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
I searched on wikicommons and found a lot of pictures showing vowel "quadrilaterals" for different languages like American English, Dutch and Cantonese, etc. Many came from a Linguistics book (something like Handbook of IPA).
My question is: why are the positions of those vowels on the pictures differ so significantly from where they are on the IPA vowel chart? I tried to pronounce vowels of my native Cantonese and still got no clues.--Fitzwilliam 08:55, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
Now that this article contains:
The lip positions can be reversed with the lip position for the corresponding vowel on the opposite side of the front-back dimension, so that e.g. Cardinal 1 can be produced with the rounding for Cardinal 9, etc.; these are known as 'secondary cardinal vowels'.
I don't quite understand the italic text. What I get is: it means (according to the example that follows) when you change the lip position (e.g. from unrounded to rounded), then the vowel you pronounce will be another one. This sentence looks a bit clumsy for me...
Or are the vowels are numbered in pairs according to backness and height and roundedness? --Fitzwilliam 04:53, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
What is presto? It seems to be a proper name of Italian origin. --Fitzwilliam 08:41, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
I was taught that the German letter e is read as the same as English letter a. And hence, things like first e in gegen, eh in sehen are also read as English a (except that vowel length differs).
Is it true? Wikibook says e is roughly ay as in English bay. Again, ay appears. But in articles German language and German phonology, the e is clearly a monophthong. I don't really know which is correct.--Fitzwilliam 16:32, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
From the section of Teochew (dialecte):
Le programme de romanisation du teochew (潮州话拼音方案), aussi appelé Peng'im (拼音), créé en septembre 1960 par le Département de l'Éducation de la province de Guangdong, est le système de romanisation dédié au teochew. Le standard suivi pour son élaboration fut la prononciation de la préfecture de Shantou (汕頭/汕头 suan1tao5). Ce système transcrit les sons de la langue par l'alphabet latin et les tons par des chiffres mis en exposant.
What does it mean? Especially the second and last sentences? -- Fitzwilliam 13:58, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
Hello Fitzwilliam,
I don't quite understand what you mean by 'minor changes in layout' and 'some supplements', but you have actually mis-corrected the information in the article, such as the intelligibility index. If you will read more carefully, 45.5% is the intelligibility between Minnan and Yue dialects whereas the intelligibility between Chaozhouhua and (Guangzhou) Cantonese is 43.5%. Cantonese, in its stricter sense, refers to the Guangzhou variety of the Yue language family and could be very different from some other Yue dialects.
As for the sub-grouping of the Chaoshan dialects, I have followed the convention used by Lin Lun Lun et al, i.e. Shantou sub-group, Chaopu sub-group and Luhai sub-group. You could read more about it in his 廣東的方言.
The information of Hakka speakers in a predominantly Chaoshan speaking region is given in the section under "languages in contact" while the section on where Chaoshan is spoken does not seem to have any particular reason to include other languages.
And would you kindly justify your addition of "informal" to the second person?
I have therefore undone the edits you have made and if you would like to discuss more, you could leave me a message.
Shingrila 14:40, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for catching that vandalism. I seem to have irritated someone, though I've no clue who or how... cheers! Tony Fox (arf!) 07:40, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
Hi, I saw you added internal section links to
English phonology. When section links are to sections in the same page, you can omit the article title: [[#Word-level rules|word-level rules]]
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what are you talking about? I the one who created and setup History of DC Comics Timeline myself I have right change my mind I had to leave blank page for now, because I have prolem the Page. and you called me vandalism? this is not vandalism. thethunderstrike04
It looks to me that the edit summary your TWINKLE script generated is quite unreadable. A better option would be "(Reverted to revision 108567850 by 193.123.249.83 by TWINKLE)", not just a period between the editor and the name "TWINKLE". -- Der yck C. 09:19, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
My edit on ArglebargleIV's user page was meant for his discussion page, my apologies.
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I have added a response to your comment. Since you live in Hong Kong, I assume religious differences play a bigger part than the cultural differences regarding this matter. Kowloonese 23:52, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
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