- toi4 saan1 waa2),
alternatively romanized in
Cantonese as
Toishanese or
Toisanese, in
local dialect as
Hoisanese or Hoisanwa, is a Yue
Chinese language...
-
Elizabeth Chong. The name
derives from the
pronunciation diim
syiim (點心) in
Toisanese, the
predominant dialect spoken at the time by
Central Melbourne's Chinese...
-
Chinese po****tion
before the 1990s
consisted of
Cantonese or Taishanese(
Toisanese)-speaking
people from
southern China,
predominately from
Guangdong province...
- in
Cantonese Yale. It is
romanised as Tam in Hong Kong and Macau. In
Toisanese Chinese, it may be
romanised as Thom, Hom, Ham or Hum. In
Hokkien Chinese...
-
Northern Min Nì-bǒ̤ng (Jian'ou dialect) or
Fuzhounese Nĭk-buōng. In
modern Toisanese, a Yue
Chinese language, 日本 is
pronounced as Ngìp Bāwn [ŋip˦˨ bɔn˥]. Historical...
- San Ngin), Sze Yup
people (Chinese: 四邑人, Taishanese: Hlei Yip Ngin), or
Toisanese are a Yue-speaking Han
Chinese group coming from Sze Yup (四邑),
which consisted...
- rise to the Siyi dialects, the most
prominent of
which is
Taishanese (
Toisanese/Hoisanese).
Although Siyi and
Cantonese both
belong to the Yue branch...
- city.
While in New York,
Willis began to
learn Chinese (Cantonese and
Toisanese dialects) as a way to pick up
Asian women,
eventually becoming fluent...
- The
Eighth Promise: An
American Son's
Tribute to His
Toisanese Mother is a
memoir by
American lawyer William Poy Lee,
published in 2007 by
Rodale Books...
- The main
dialect spoken in
Chinatown then was Hoisan-wa (aka Hoisanese;
Toisanese in
Cantonese and
Taishanese in Mandarin),
native to the
emigrants from...
