番仔話

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Chinese

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

Pronunciation

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Noun

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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

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