Appendix talk:Sino-Tibetan Swadesh lists/1-25

Min Nan accents

 * Information about Min Nan accents (Quanzhou, Xiamen, Zhangzhou) primarily comes from 愛說台語五千年 (Discovering the ancient origins of Taiwanese, ISBN 9789867101471). Information about Taiwan accents primarily comes from 華台英詞彙句式對照集 (A comparative collection of Mandarin, Taiwanese and English words, ISBN 9571138223).  I have also cross checked these two books against the written Min Nan that I have observed on the web (a special thanks to Min Nan wikipedia!).  Additionally, I have attempted to match all of the above with my own face to face encounters with various native Min Nan speakers.  I have attempted to be as accurate as possible.  Of course, as societies become increasingly mobile, accents seem to get blended together.  If you speak Min Nan, and detect an inaccuracy, please feel free to either leave a note on this discussion page, or if you feel confident enough, you can correct the error yourself.  -- A-cai 05:46, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

Min Nan negatives

 * Min Nan has extremely complex syntax for negatives. I tried to capture as much detail in as little space as possible.  I believe that too cursory a treatment would not properly underscore some of the key differences between Min Nan and other dialects such as Mandarin.  My primary reference work for this is 閩南語語法研究試論 (A tentative research of Min Nan grammar, ISBN 9571509485) -- A-cai 14:16, 18 March 2007 (UTC)