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Asked by Mr.chang from malaysia | Sep. 14, 2010 00:57
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What dialect did Nanping people speak hokkian or foochow? I would like to know exactly my ancesstor is hokkian or foochow.
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Answered by Mr.Michael | Sep. 14, 2010 04:45
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Their language is a local dialect, seems neither Hokkian nor Foochow. It is different from the two languages.
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Answered by Pat Welsh from USA | Nov. 27, 2013 17:11
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Nicholas Bodmann in his book "Spoken Amoy Hokkien" identifies the Local Dialect as a Mandarin Dialect. Not having samples of it, I cannot verify this. If it is, it would be a southeastern Mandarin dialect, the most diverse group of subdialects Mandarin has.
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