All variants of Hokkien dialects, be it Amoy, Taiwanese and those spoken in South East Asia, can be traced to two sources of origin: Quanzhou speech and Zhangzhou speech. Both Amoy and Taiwanese are based on a mixture of Quanzhou and Zhangzhou speeches, while the rest of the Hokkien dialect...
“uānn-thiap–ê” describes a close friendship formed by a blood-brothers style pact, wherein two friends exchange cards with information on each other (name, age, place of origin, family history), to forge a kinship. Now it’s used to describe good friends. ...