Zhangzhounese
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Zhangzhou + -n- + -ese.
Proper noun
[edit]Zhangzhounese
- The Hokkien dialect of Zhangzhou
- 2021 August 15, Tom G. Hoogervorst, Language Ungoverned: Indonesia's Chinese Print Entrepreneurs, 1911–1949, Cornell University Press, →ISBN, page 39:
- Most varieties spoken in and around Xiamen (Hk: Ē-mûin, Ml: Emoei), Taiwan, and Southeast Asia constitute intermediate dialects with varying inclinations toward Zhangzhounese and Quanzhounese. As Zhangzhou was the chief Fujianese […]
Noun
[edit]Zhangzhounese pl (plural only)
- The people of Zhangzhou
- 2005, 教育研究 [Educational Studies][1], volume 47, Mitaka, Japan: International Christian University, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 196:
- In addition to the Fukeinese, Quanzhounese, Zhangzhounese and Sanjiangnese, the Cantonese flocked to Japan and established their own sphere of Chinese influence in Yokohama port when the Sino-Japan Recovery Contract was enacted in […]
Usage notes
[edit]As with other terms for people formed with -ese, the countable singular noun in reference to a person (as in "I am a Zhangzhounese", "writing about Zhangzhounese cuisine as a Zhangzhounese") is uncommon and often taken as incorrect. In its place, the adjective is used, by itself (as in "I am Zhangzhounese") or before a noun like person, man, or woman ("writing about Zhangzhounese cuisine as a Zhangzhounese person"). See also -ish, which is similarly only used primarily as an adjective or as a plural noun.