Hai Lok Hong

Hai Lok Hong proper noun: haklau Min (a linguistic variety of Southern Min under Min Chinese of the Sinitic family).

Proper noun

Hai Lok Hong

(Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Southeast Asia) Haklau Min (a linguistic variety of Southern Min under Min Chinese of the Sinitic family)
- […]Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, Chaouzhou, and Hainanese, are the most widely recognized. The Min dialect of Hailokhong (Mandarin Hailufeng) is closest to the Zhangzhou subgroup in vowel reflexes but in initial nasals is close to Chaozhou, a conservative feature. Hailokhong is noteworthy for being the only...1985, Veneeta Acson, Richard L. Leed, editors, Oceanic Linguistics Special Publication, Issue 20: For Gordon H. Fairbanks, University of Hawaii Press, →ISBN
- […]and the Hinhua did not seem to have leaders of such calibre. The situation in Sumatra was probably more telling. There were few Hokchia moneylenders in the east coast of Sumatra as the occupation was dominated not by the Chinese but by the Chettiar. But Chinese plantation workers of the...1998, Peck Yang Twang, The Chinese Business Élite in Indonesia and the Transition to Independence, 1940-1950, Oxford University Press, →ISBN

Hai Lok Hong (plural Hai Lok Hong or Hai Lok Hongs)

(Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Southeast Asia) a person who traces his/her ancestry to Hailufeng or the surrounding area
- […]Hai-Lok-Hong sinkhehs ( a composite term for the Hai Hong and Lok Hong districts in Kwangtung province ) to pay back twice the amount of their real debt.2 The Labour Code of 1895 limited verbal contracts to thirty days and laid down[…]1968, Emily Sadka, The Protected Malay States, 1874-1895, Kuala Lumpur: University of Malaya Press
- […] For instance, the Kelang Lama area (Fig. 3) was initially inhabited by Hakkas growing tapioca; the Teochius particularly from the Teoh Yeoh District (潮陽縣), 300 to 400 strong, occupied Keladi, and the Hailokhong (海陸豐) were located in the Belakang Tebok, both practising mixed-farming and...1973, 南洋大學學報, volumes 7-9, Singapore: 新加坡南洋大學 [Singapore Nanyang University]

Hai Lok Hong (not comparable)

(Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Southeast Asia) of or relating to the linguistic variety under Southern Min under Min Chinese of the Sinitic family and its speakers or people of heritage from Hailufeng
- […]Wong Ying (Captain Macao), Hin Sam (Captain Kheh), Lam Sam (Kheh), Lam Be (Hai-lok-hong). The Gi-Hin Kongsi has existed in the town of Klang from the year Jini Ngo, corresponding to the English year 1862, when Hin Sui was Captain. The Gi-Hin Kongsi house was at Ampang. The men who established...1955, Journal of the Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, page 134
- […]principalities, eighty-eight Britons, forty Swiss, twelve Frenchmen, eleven Austrians, and twenty-four men from seven other nationalities. Clerks and overseers included Overseas Chinese, Euro-Chinese, and Sinjos (of mixed origin). The workers included Chinese who were Hailokhong, Keh, or from...2002 November 21, Dirk Hoerder, Cultures in Contact: World Migrations in the Second Millennium, Duke University Press, →ISBN, page 437

Possibly either Hailufeng Min 海陸豐 /海陆丰 or Teochew 海陸豐 /海陆丰. Compare Indonesian Hailokhong, Dutch Hailokhong. Doublet of Hailufeng.

What does Hai Lok Hong mean?: Hai Lok Hong means haklau Min (a linguistic variety of Southern Min under Min Chinese of the Sinitic family).
What part of speech is Hai Lok Hong?: Hai Lok Hong can be a proper noun, a noun or an adjective.

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