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When the Chinese from China migrate to Malaya, North Borneo and Sarawak did they create a new version of?


Chinese language that doesn't exist in China and Taiwan

Some Cantonese words used by Malaysian Chinese do not exist in Hong Kong.

Example: if you say 'lok sui' (raining) in HK, they know you are Malaysian. They say 'lok yu' instead.

More: do not say 'tah pau' when you want to takeaway food in HK. You should say 'lor jau', because if somebody 'tah pau' you it means that they murdered you. Here 'tah pau' means takeaway.

The phrase 'kok kuih' referring to kuih muih exists in Cantonese here, but say that to a HK hawker he will just give you a blank stare.

The Hokkien dialect here in M''sia differs slightly from Taiwanese Hokkien, and the one spoken in China's Fujien province.

no... but over time it evolved, borrowing words from the locals and highly influenced by the different elements of the place. intonation, slang, suffixes etc.

for eg, many chinese dialects in msia now uses :suka" "tapi" that are difficult to be replaced with a true chinese word in day to day conversations. if we were to communicate with relatives in china with mother tongue, we are still able to comprehend each other, just not completely.

this happens to mandarin as well, with all the lah bah mahs for example, communicating with china chinese and taiwanese is not difficult.. over time, they themselves catches our language easily. i would say we have a modified mandarin, not a new version altogether.

no it's all the same , except for the accent.

I agree with Hushpuppy and Bronzedgal....
Now, what's with the thumbs-down for Hushpuppy's correctly given answer???!!!! That is so sore a thumb!!!
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Its just like when people says "Singlish". It is not a new version of English, just that it was "localized". In fact, most Johor (a state in Malaysia), speak perfect Chinese, with no assent. Rest assure.

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