Philippine Hokkien[lower-alpha 5] is a dialect of the Hokkien language of the Southern Min branch, primarily spoken vernacularly by Chinese Filipinos in the Philippines, where it serves as the local Chinese lingua franca,[4] primarily spoken as an oral language, within the overseas Chinese community in the Philippines and acts as the heritage language of a majority of Chinese Filipinos.[5] The use of Hokkien in the Philippines is influenced by Philippine Spanish,[6][7] Filipino (Tagalog) and Philippine English.[1]
Philippine Hokkien | |||||||||||||
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Traditional Chinese | 咱人話 / 咱儂話 | ||||||||||||
Tâi-lô | Lán-nâng-uē / Lán-lâng-uē / Nán-nâng-uē | ||||||||||||
Literal meaning | Our People's Speech | ||||||||||||
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Alternative Name (Philippine Hokkien) | |||||||||||||
Traditional Chinese | 菲律賓福建話 | ||||||||||||
Tâi-lô | Hui-li̍p-pin Hok-kiàn-uē | ||||||||||||
Literal meaning | Philippine Hokkien Speech | ||||||||||||
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Alternative Name (Philippine Min Nan) | |||||||||||||
Traditional Chinese | 菲律賓閩南話 | ||||||||||||
Tâi-lô | Hui-li̍p-pin Bân-lâm-uē | ||||||||||||
Literal meaning | Philippine Southern Min Speech | ||||||||||||
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咱人話 / 咱儂話 Lán-nâng-uē / Lán-lâng-uē / Nán-nâng-uē (Tâi-lô) Lán-nâng-ōe / Lán-lâng-ōe / Nán-nâng-ōe (POJ) | |
Native to | Philippines |
Region | Metro Manila, Metro Cebu, Metro Davao, Zamboanga City, Cagayan de Oro, Metro Bacolod, Iloilo, Baguio, Sulu, Bohol, Leyte, Pangasinan, Pampanga, Tarlac, Vigan, Laoag, Laguna, Rizal, Lucena, Naga, and other parts of the Philippines |
Language family | Sino-Tibetan
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ISO 639-3 | – |
Glottolog | None |
Linguasphere | 79-AAA-jek |
The term Philippine Hokkien is used when differentiating the variety of Hokkien spoken in the Philippines from those spoken in China, Taiwan, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, and other Southeast Asian countries.[8][2]
Historically, it was also known in Philippine English, Filipino (Tagalog), and other Philippine languages as Fookien[1] or Fukien[9] across the country, derived from the Chinese postal romanization of the Nanjing court dialect Mandarin reading of Fujian province in China, such as in the old newspaper, The Fookien Times.
The endonym used by speakers of the dialect itself or the Hokkien language in general though is typically, Chinese: 咱人話 / 咱儂話; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Lán-nâng-ōe / Lán-lâng-ōe / Nán-nâng-ōe; Tâi-lô: Lán-nâng-uē / Lán-lâng-uē / Nán-nâng-uē.[1]
Only 12.2% of all ethnic Chinese in the Philippines have a variety of Chinese as their mother tongue. Nevertheless, the vast majority (77%) still retain the ability to understand and speak Hokkien as a second or third language.[10]
From the late 16th century to the early 17th century, Spanish friars in the Philippines, such as the Dominican Order specifically in Manila, produced materials documenting the Hokkien varieties spoken by the Chinese trading community who had settled there in the late 16th century:[11][6]
These texts appear to record a Zhangzhou dialect of Hokkien, from the old port of Yuegang (modern-day Haicheng, an old port that is now part of Longhai),[17] which Klöter (2011) calls as Early Manila Hokkien (EMH).[6]
However by 1873, Carstairs Douglas writes in his dictionary that [18]
Singapore and the various Straits Settlements [such as Penang and Malacca], Batavia [Jakarta] and other parts of the Dutch possessions [Indonesia], are crowded with emigrants, especially from the Chang-chew [Zhangzhou] prefecture; Manila and other parts of the Philippines have great numbers from Chin-chew [Quanzhou], and emigrants are largely scattered in like manner in Siam [Thailand], Burmah [Myanmar], the Malay Peninsula [Peninsular Malaysia], Cochin China [Southern Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos], Saigon [Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam], &c. In many of these places there is also a great mixture of emigrants from Swatow [Shantou].
— Carstairs Douglas, Extent of the Amoy Vernacular, and its Sub-division into Dialects: Colonization And Emigration, Chinese–English Dictionary of the Vernacular or Spoken Language of Amoy
By 1941, Vicente Lim publishes a dictionary in Manila, titled "Chinese-English-Tagalog-Spanish Business conversation and social contact with Amoy pronunciation".[19]
During the late 20th century, despite Standard Chinese (Mandarin) taking the place as the usual Chinese class subject taught in Chinese Filipino schools as the topic of study, some schools had Chinese teachers that used Amoy Hokkien as medium of instruction in order to teach Mandarin Chinese to native-Hokkien-speaking Chinese Filipino students, but decades later around the Marcos Era, regulations became stricter and the medium of instruction for teaching Standard Chinese (Mandarin) in Chinese classes shifted from Amoy Hokkien Chinese to purely Mandarin Chinese (or in some schools to English). Also, due to the increased rural to urban migration of Chinese Filipinos, Chinese Filipino schools in urban areas increased but those in the provinces gradually declined, some closing down or some turning into ordinary Philippine schools, where some tried to preserve their "Chinese" characteristic by instead teaching Hokkien as their Chinese class subject, deeming it as more practical in the Philippine-Chinese setting.[20]
As of 2019[update], the Ateneo de Manila University, under their Chinese Studies Programme, offers Hokkien 1 (Chn 8) and Hokkien 2 (Chn 9) as electives.[21] Chiang Kai Shek College offers Hokkien classes in their CKS Language Center.[22]
Philippine Hokkien is largely derived from the Jinjiang dialect of Quanzhou but has possibly also absorbed influences from the Amoy dialect of Xiamen and Nan'an dialects of Quanzhou.[23][24]
Although Philippine Hokkien is generally mutually comprehensible especially with other Quanzhou Hokkien variants, including Singaporean Hokkien and Quanzhou-based Taiwanese Hokkien variants, the local vocabulary, tones, and Filipino or Philippine Spanish and English loanwords as well as the extensive use of contractions and colloquialisms (even those which are now unused or considered archaic or dated in China) can result in confusion among Hokkien speakers from outside of the Philippines.[citation needed]
Some terms have been shortened into one syllable. Examples include:[19]
Philippine Hokkien, like other Southeast Asian variants of Hokkien (e.g. Singaporean Hokkien, Penang Hokkien, Johor Hokkien and Medan Hokkien), has borrowed words from other languages spoken locally, specifically Spanish, Tagalog and English. Examples include:[1][19]
Philippine Hokkien also has some vocabulary that is unique to it compared to other varieties of Hokkien:[1][19]
Hokaglish is code-switching involving Philippine Hokkien, Tagalog and English. Hokaglish shows similarities to Taglish (mixed Tagalog and English), the everyday mesolect register of spoken Filipino language within Metro Manila and its environs.[8]
Both ways of speaking are very common among Chinese Filipinos, who tend to code-switch these languages in everyday conversation, where it can be observed that older generations typically use the Hokkien Chinese sentence structure base while injecting English and Tagalog words while the younger ones use the Filipino/Tagalog sentence structure as the base while injecting the few Hokkien terms they know in the sentence. The latter therefore, in a similar sense with Taglish using Tagalog grammar and syntax, tends to code-mix via conjugating the Hokkien terms the way they do for Filipino/Tagalog words.[25]
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