Banlaam-guo

Template:Y/Template:Y (Banlaam-guo; 閩南語; Min Nan/Southern Min speech)

Influence

Banlaam refers to a language family spoken in Fujian and nearby areas. In common parlance, it usually refers to Hokkiexn-oe. Amoy and Taiwanese are both combinations of Zoanciw-oe and Ciangciw-oe. The language family also includes Teochew, which has limited mutual intelligibility with Amoy.

Banlaam can trace its roots through the Tang Dynasty. Because of the widespread influence of the Tang culture during the great Tang dynasty, we find today still many Banlaam-style pronunciations of words shared by Vietnamese, Korean, and Japanese languages.

English	Chinese characters	MTL	Korean	Vietnamese	Japanese
book	冊	zheq	chaek	cuốn sách	saku/satsu/shaku
bridge	橋	kiøo	kyo	cầu	kyō
dangerous	危險	guihiarm	wiheom	nguy hiểm	kiken
flag	旗	kii	ki	kỳ	ki
insurance	保險	pøfhiarm	boheom	bảo hiểm	hoken
news	新聞	sinbuun	shinmun	tân văn	shinbun
student	學生	hagsefng	haksaeng	học sinh	gakusei
university	大學	taixhak	tae hak	đại học	daigaku

SK e BC

• Taiguo
• Høxlør-oe
• Hokkiexn-oe