番仔話

Chinese

		foreigner; Westerner	spoken words; speech; dialect spoken words; speech; dialect; language; talk; conversation; what someone said
trad. (番仔話)		番仔	話
simp. (番仔话)		番仔	话

Pronunciation

• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): hoan-á-ōe / hoan-á-ōa

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• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Philippines, Singapore)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hoan-á-ōe
    • Tâi-lô: huan-á-uē
    • Phofsit Daibuun: hoan'afoe
    • IPA (Singapore): /huan⁴⁴⁻²² a⁴²⁻²⁴ ue²²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou, Philippines): /huan³³ a⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ ue⁴¹/
    • IPA (Xiamen): /huan⁴⁴⁻²² a⁵³⁻⁴⁴ ue²²/
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou, Penang)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hoan-á-ōa
    • Tâi-lô: huan-á-uā
    • Phofsit Daibuun: hoan'afoa
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /huan⁴⁴⁻²² a⁵³⁻⁴⁴ ua²²/
    • IPA (Penang): /huan³³⁻²¹ a⁴⁴⁵⁻³³ ua²¹/

Noun

番仔話 (Hokkien)

1. (Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou and Taiwanese Hokkien) foreign language or expression
2. (Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou and Taiwanese Hokkien) unreasonable words or expressions
3. (Taiwanese, Philippine, Malaysian and Singapore Hokkien) language spoken by the natives
   1. (Taiwanese Hokkien) Taiwanese aboriginal language (one of the Formosan languages)
   2. (Philippine Hokkien) one of the Philippine languages, especially Tagalog or Cebuano Bisaya or etc. (depending on the region)
   3. (Malaysian and Singapore Hokkien) Malay language

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 馬來語 (“the Malay language”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		馬來語, 馬來文
Mandarin	Taiwan	馬來語
	Malaysia	馬來語, 馬來話, 馬來文, 巫語, 巫文, 國語, 國文
	Singapore	馬來語, 馬來話, 馬來文, 巫語
Cantonese	Hong Kong	馬拉話, 馬拉文
	Kuala Lumpur (Guangfu)	馬拉話
	Singapore (Guangfu)	馬拉話
Southern Min	Penang (Hokkien)	番仔話, 番仔
	Singapore (Hokkien)	番仔話, 番仔
	Manila (Hokkien)	馬來話
	Singapore (Teochew)	番囝話