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Amoy|əˈmɔɪ|
The conventional western name for the island of Xiamen in Fujian province, south-east China, used attrib. and absol. to designate the southern Fujian (Minnan) dialect of Chinese spoken by the people of Amoy.
1851Chinese Repository July 475 The diacritical marks in the Amoy dialect show the tone, or shing, of each word. 1911Encycl. Brit. V. 216/2 We pass in succession the following dialects:..Amoy..Foochow, [etc.]. 1917S. Couling Encycl. Sinica 143/1 The Amoy dialect, spoken by some ten millions of people, differs very widely from the book-language. 1948R. A. D. Forrest Chinese Lang. xi. 232 Hainanese has a basis in common Min, and seems to build its peculiar features on the traits of Amoy and Swatow where these diverge from the rest of the group. 1979Sci. Amer. May 34/3 The most endearing..seems the greeting spoken in Amoy, a language of the Chinese coast. |