Mavericker Posted October 21, 2007 at 07:08 PM Report Posted October 21, 2007 at 07:08 PM Hi-I'm interested in Hokkien and I'd like to know if someone can suggest some good English to Hokkien and English to Taiwanese Hokkien dictionaries-i would be intested in buying some. Please let me know. Thank you. Quote
wix Posted October 22, 2007 at 03:46 AM Report Posted October 22, 2007 at 03:46 AM I don't own one myself, but there is a new website about Taiwanese language called Tailingua. It has a page about books. There are several dictionaries listed there. Quote
Mavericker Posted October 25, 2007 at 03:47 AM Author Report Posted October 25, 2007 at 03:47 AM Here's a list of Taiwanese leraning resources if anyone's interested: Bodman, Nicholas C.: Spoken Taiwanese with Cassette(s), 1980/2001, ISBN 0-87950-461-7 or ISBN 0-87950-460-9 or ISBN 0-87950-462-5 Campbell, William: Ē-mn̂g-im Sin Jī-tián (Dictionary of the Amoy Vernacular). Tainan, Taiwan: Tâi-oân Kàu-hoē Kong-pò-siā (Taiwan Church Press, Presbyterian Church in Taiwan). 1993–06 (First published 1913–07). Iâu Chèng-to: Cheng-soán Pe̍h-oē-jī (Concise Colloquial Writing). Tainan, Taiwan: Jîn-kong (an imprint of the Presbyterian Church in Taiwan). 1992. Tân, K. T: A Chinese-English Dictionary: Taiwan Dialect. Taipei: Southern Materials Center. 1978. Klöter, Henning. Written Taiwanese. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2005. ISBN 3-447-05093-4, 78,00 € [D] Maryknoll Language Service Center: English-Amoy Dictionary. Taichung, Taiwan: Maryknoll Fathers. 1979. Tiuⁿ Jū-hông: Principles of Pe̍h-oē-jī or the Taiwanese Orthography: an introduction to its sound-symbol correspondences and related issues. Taipei: Crane Publishing, 2001. ISBN 957-2053-07-8 Wi-vun Taiffalo Chiung: Tone Change in Taiwanese: Age and Geographic Factors. 樋口 靖: 台湾語会話, 2000, ISBN 4-497-20004-3 (Good and yet concise introduction to the Taiwanese language in Japanese; CD: ISBN 4-497-20006-X) 趙 怡華: はじめての台湾, 2003, ISBN 4-7569-0665-6 (In Japanese: Introduction to Taiwanese and Chinese) Katharina Sommer, Xie Shu-Kai: Taiwanisch Wort für Wort, 2004, ISBN 3-89416-348-8 (Taiwanese for travellers, in German. CD: ISBN 3-8317-6094-2) Quote
wix Posted October 24, 2008 at 04:00 AM Report Posted October 24, 2008 at 04:00 AM Taiwan's Ministry of Education has published a "Taiwanese Minnan" Online Dictionary. (臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典) Check it out at http://twblg.dict.edu.tw/tw/index.htm Quote
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