r/TeochewNang

Ive heard my family say ‘if’ as:

• 譬如 (pǐ yū)

• 如果 (yū guà)

• 就是 (jiú sí) … the meaning of ‘even if’ (but they pronounced it more like jié sí)

Ive heard other people on the gaginang server say na si, but i havent heard it in my family.

Hey there. I'm creating a fictional Teochew-speaking country Peichew (百州) and trying to render the capital name 雄京 in Teochew. (The project is still in devlopement and I'm rather new to Teochew, though my mother speaks it)

However, I'm unsure what's the correct translation for 雄. On Dictionary of the Swatow Dialect (1883) and this Pe̍h-ūe-j transliteration tool it is "Chie". But in other dictionaries like learn teochew and mogher it is "Hiong". So which is more accurate?

Also, what's this sub preference for Teochew romanisation? Pe̍h-ūe-jī or Pêng'im?

And does the discord link still works? Cos it keeps asking me to log in despite me having already logged in.

I’ve always been stumped by this as a Teochew-American. In Mandarin, there are two ways to say the word “or” (each with a distinct grammatical purpose): 还是 and 或者. My family regularly uses the word 还是, but I realized that none of us know how to say 或者 in Teochew. Since 还是 and 或者 are definitely not synonyms (and this is a remarkably common word), I’d really like to know what to say.