TeoChew

[Takimo]

im teo chew, but i dont know a lot from this culture...

1- which part of china teochew people come from ???

2- Is teochew same as taiwanese, hokkien ???

and why there is not a lot of teochew people in the world ???

[Ncao]

Teo Chew 潮州 (pinyin Cháo Zhōu) is in the eastern part of Guandong province very close to southern Fujian(Hokkein). Teo chew and Taiwanese belong to the Minnan (southern Fujian/Hokkein)dialect group, so yes Teo Chew and Taiwanese sound similar but not exactlythe same. And actually there are lot of Teo Chew in this world. Most of the Chinese in Thailand are actually Teochew.

[trien27]

There's some Teo Chew people in VIetnam and other parts of SE asia.

[D I E N]

Hi Takimo:

There are various estimates of the no. of Teochew people in the world; some say as many as 30,000,000.

The "motherland" is the ChouShan (pronounced as "Teo-Sua" in Teochew language) region in Southeast Guangdong Province of China; where the Teochews reside in 8 counties; the largest being Shantou (pronounced as "Swatow" in Teochew language) and Chaozhou (pronounced as "Teochew" in Teochew language)

[Just to confuse: "Teochew" is the label for a place as well as the language, and people !!! ]

Teochews are also numerous in various parts of Southeast Asia; notably Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, and Singapore.

Go to this site:

http://www.gaginang.org/forum/index.php

.........and be welcomed to an online community of Teochews.

["Gaginang" is pronounced as "ka ki nang" (meaning "our own people" in Teochew).

And you will see other spellings for the word "Teochew"; such as "Diojiu", "Tiechew"etc]

Here is another : http://myshantou.net/

Hope you will find this informative.