I am a Javanese and an Indonesian. I love to watch your youtube channel because I have curiosity in history and the way you explain is good, I don't understand some of the topics, I guess I need to look over your another eps. Thank you for this. Now I know some fun facts about hainanese.
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I went to Hainan Island many years ago for a business trip. My Hong Kong distributor was with me on this trip. The first thing that surprised me was many of the Hainanese were speaking Cantonese. I can speak Cantonese as I am a Malaysian residing in Singapore. My Hong Kong distributor told me Cantonese is commonly spoken because at one time Hainan Island was part of Guandong province.
@NS Ng Politically governed in a same province which speaks a dominant dialect like Cantonese has nothing to do with the dialects spoken in the outer prefectures.No mather how long the Prefecture was under its jurisdiction. The dialect/language spoken is linked to the ethnicity of the people there. Guangdong Province has 21 Prefectures. Not all of them speaks Cantonese.Eg. Shantou 汕頭市,prefecture speaks Chaozhou 潮州 dialect. Meizhou,Heyuan Prefectures speak Hakka. That Hongkie is trying to mislead people to think that Cantonese is h Province high and mighty. In fact 15% of Hongkies are of non Cantonese ethnicity. Group supremacist and extremist Be careful
@NS Ng Wah! Sounds eerie you really met 'many' Hainanese who speak Cantonese. Engkau ada dengar salah? My mother in law is Hainanese born and bred in Hainan. She said she never meet any native Hainanese who spoke Cantonese in Hainan.
Thanks for this information. I'm a Hainanese from Singapore, it's nice to learn about the origins of Hainanese. ☺️ Yes another surname ,such as mine 符 seems to be uniquely only for Hainanese.
@@maestrolik Yes 符 is the 5th largest surname in hainan, my relatives have both 符 and 詹, I am a 林 which also traces back to recent canto and hokkien lines. but both of them aren't unique to hainan, they are a bit rare as they are 251th and 254th in the hundred surname log but they are also in quite common in several provinces
Only with Foo surname are classify confirm original Hainanese. :) If you may notice surname like Lim can be either hokkien or hainanese or Hakka etc .... 😆
Thank you for this episode, my Ancestor came from qionghai 琼海, 嘉积市,溪边 村。 My grand father open coffee shop, my father work in hotel line (Batu ferringhi) . Very well researched. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Michael Chuan, I have been back to my ancestor home in 琼海县，嘉积市,溪边 村 two years ago. If I am not mistaken, we have the same surname too - Chuan 全. For your info, there is still a Chuan Clan village which I have accidentally bumped into during my short evening tour of my ancestor home.
Hainanese born in VietNam, now leave in Belgium for more than 4 decades. I really appreciated your post, I learnt a corner of my ancestors island. I forwarded the link to my family, I received 5 Thanh you from them. So my turn to Thank you for this amazing post.❤
I am a hainanese born in PJ, malaysja and now living in London. Trying to teach my son's hainanese as it is not much spoken with mandarin being the emphasis. I think that Hainanese, the dialect will disappear fast. Only my generatjon , the 40s , are left to speak it well. I enjoy languages and speak English, Malay, mandarin, Cantonese, Hainan and French. Hope we can find a way to preserve these amazing dialects , be in Hainan, hokkien, teochew, Hakka, Cantonese, Shanghainese and so on.
You are a talented polyglot. You can speak French! Same like you, I also speak 6 languages English, Malay, mandarin, Cantonese, *Hakka and *very very little spanish. and Indonesian which is very similar to Malay :) Hainanese is rather difficult to speak in my opinion though, but it's very special. a lot of "v" and "d‘ sound in the pronunciation.
Hi , I am Hainanese from Singapore , already 70 plus years old . It is amazing you know so many languages ! I used to work in banking . Now retired .What do you do in London ? You emigrated to UK ?
Me too! I m Malaysian Hainanese & love to learn and speak other languages/dialects too! Besides Hainanese, I have no problem communicating in English, Malay, Mandarin, Cantonese, Hokkien and some bits of Teochew & Hakka. 😊😊
Very informative and accurate research. My mother was from a non-Han ethnic group living in the highland. I now know my father was probably from 1 of the 3 eastern counties. I remembered the roasting of the coffee beans in my father's kopi tiam in Changi, Singapore back in the 1960s. I now reside in Richmond Hill, Canada and I hope to have a kopi with condensed milk and kaya and butter spread on a toasted white bread in a kopi tiam one day.
@@laurencechan470 Hello, a suki here from Selangor, Malaysia. I am a Woon 雲 of Boon siur /Wen Chang. Proud to be a Hainanese. Is it true the Hainanese people are direct descendants of Genghis Khan?
My maternal grandfather and mother side are Foo, migrated from Boonsio. A food caterer for cruise ships; after the war, owned a nightclub in singapore in the 60's. Paternal side Wong were also in food business in singapore.
My late grandfather and my 86 yo father were migrants from Wenchang to Malaya. My Grandfather was a kopitiam owner whereas his cousins were kopi traders. 1st generation hainanese still speaks hainanese (with both parents are from hainanese clan) whilst the 2nd generation (failed to converse and understand hainanese, also due to mixed marriage with other ethnic/dialect group). Most young hainanese now converse in Mandarin with their families at home.
I'm also pure hainanese and my grandparents were also kopitiam owners both paternal and maternal sides. My grandad also from Bonsio/wenchang. I spoke hainanese with my parents and relatives since young but now I seldom speak hainanese.
Hello Thanks for making this video. I am a hainanese from Singapore. You are very good and look like you have a lot of information. Just wanted to know what direct you are.
Thank you for this very interesting and informative video. I’m a 3rd generation Chinese from Fujian province. I live in Kuala Lumpur now but very much interested in my grandfather’s lao jia.
Kopi, kaya toast, half boiled eggs- our staple breakfast. I’m so happy when i found these breakfast set oversea!! Looking forward to your next video to learn more! My bf is from 福建，福州 and my ancestor background is 福建，泉州 Interesting to know, I don’t understand his dialect.
The Hui people in Hainan are actually Champa Muslims. They are Champa descendants was destroyed by the Vietnamese.They are not Hui (a mixture of Han, Arab, Persian)
May I know where I can read the history of Champa Muslims migration to Hainan. I tried to imagine the Chams using boats to land in Hainan like in 1978 and thereafter the Chinese rode on boats to run away from communism. Or is it the Chams ran at the same time?
My grandfather and grandmother are from Hainan around 1929 . He owned and opened the biggest bakery shop in Singapore in around 1940s before I was borned in 92 Palembang road where Golden Mile hawker centre was situated. The singapore government demolisted all the houses in our precint . He employed around 20 workers working 24 hrs round the clock every day. I helped to sell the breads at the cashier counter . It was in 1965 to 1967 when I was studying in Victoria secondary school . My mother would sat the trishaw to go market to buy the foods to cook for our workers lunch and dinners every day. Every Chinese new year eve , my grand father would buy long rolls of fire crackers to fire and burn . The sounds were delfening and exploded very loud and noisy . I helped him to hold the bamboo pole that was used to hang the long rolls of fire crackers . Next morning , the first day of CNY , the whole of Palembang road looked like a very long red carpet . We received red packets containing $1.20 only . We enjoyed drinking the sinakco bottled drinks and pepsi drinks also. We played cards among our self with our workers and neighbours peoples . Most of our workers are hainanese.
Its correct to say Hainanese Chicken rice is everywhere in Malaysia but most are "fake" Hainanese chicken rice, the chili sauce is no where near the original and the Chicken Rice is not real Chicken Rice but Margarine Rice.
@@seebauong9593 Yes..agreed. Hainanese Chicken Rice signages hung on their stalls only 😅 Unfortunately none is hainanese and doesn’t taste authentic. I’ll at times be naughty and order/speak to them in Hainanese to ‘see’ their response to confirm if they’re actual passed down HCRice recipes or not 😂 Malaysian Hainanese living in Cyberjaya.
感謝妳的分享！長知識！Terima kasih！I was born in Selangor, but left for HK when I was just 4 yrs old. I wish I could speak several Chinese dialects and Malay like you do.
I have no doubt now why I love Kopi, Kaya and toast so much ! ❤ Grand daughter of Hainanese from Tanniu, Wenchang ! I spent a year in Hainan 20 years ago. One of the best times in my life. 🎉❤. Love from Bangkok.
Great video. Liked and subbed. Keep it coming. :) From a Sporean now living in Australia. My relatives all speak Cantonese and Hakka. So guess I'm also from Southern China.
I love your video. It is very informative. I always like to know how's all our ancestor come to South East Asia. You did amazing job. Seems we have many common interest. 😁
This is still a tip of the iceberg :) 10 minutes hardly cover everything. We have yet to discover 琼剧 opera and songs. Haha. Hope you can dive deeper than me!
Thank you for this interesting video! I'm from Poland actually, but I studied 6 months at 海南大学 and I'm wrtiting my thesis on Hainan. I love this piece of land, I miss it and I definitely would lIke to go back to explore the Coconut Island even further.
I am 2nd generation American born and raised in the USA. My family immigrated from Vietnam to the USA in the 1970's. My mom was born in Vietnam, but her father was from the Hainan island. My mom's mom is from the Guangdong area. My mom has no Vietnamese lineage, and she identifies as Chinese. Hainan is where my grandfather on my mom's side came from. He immigrated from Hainan to Vietnam around 1936 to start his own business. I think he was straight up Hainanese and spoke the Hainanese dialect. I've never met him, so I can only guess what he was like. I don't think I have any Han northern Chinese blood in me. So my Hainan lineage is dated waaaaay back before 1936. Every time I try to explain to everyone why I look super Chinese, people don't get that I'm 3+ generations removed from this island. When I tell people that I'm of Chinese-descent, they immediately stereotype me as the mainland-type of Chinese. Little do they know that they're incorrect, but I don't like getting into detail about what kind of Chinese I am, because it's too long of a story to tell. I had no idea what Hainan culture is like, because I'm more in touch with my Vietnamese side, and I'm a few generations removed from this culture. UA-cam allowed me to conceptualize and visualize what it's like over there. I’m sure Hainan has changed a lot since my my grandfather left in 1936. I’d like to visit one day. Thanks for reading!
Very interesting and well done video. My father came from 广西 before world war 2. My mother was from Malaysia. My parents owned a Chinese restaurant cum coffee shop. I m the second generation. Mid 70s. I visited my ancestors In 广西. But have not got a chance to visit 海南岛 yet. It's a great video 😊
I am a pure Hainanese. Paternal and maternal grandparents are Hainanese. Parents are Hainanese. All my siblings spoke Hainanese. Unfortunately our descendants do not. They speak English and Mandarin.
haha i am hainanese too, well "pure" hainanese actually don't exist, the island itself is an immigrant island historically and especially if your family happen to be from the eastern and northern side of island, u mostly likely have cantonese and hokkien ancestry mixed just as I am (and more, such as Li). History is long and complicated so let's skip some of that part but note that hainan as an province did not exist until 1988, it was all qiongdao(hingddao) cantonese in identity before that. You could classify the Li tribes westernmost end of the island as indigenous because the earliest of their group had been on the island for 3k years+. Li (Hlai)language should be the real hainanese here but our forefathers' influential confucian cultural indoctrination and mixing with them made 90% of them able to speak hainanese and mandarin now. But also note that official wenchang Hainanese was originally ancient min language and had been influenced with proto-sino-viet languages of the bach viet tribes as immigration along south-eastern coastline of china took places for many generations (a significant migration wave is around mongolian rule in the 13th century), thus many of its consonants and vowel tones developed along influences with the kra-dai languages, now the language is classified as Leizhou-Qiongzhou min , first hand evidence is that if you speak wenchang hainanese you can communicate with luichow area cantonese people with ease. Luichow Min: ua-cam.com/video/O8WT3G9RK8Y/v-deo.html
@@baqikenny Really! According to statistics the 3 counties, 雷州市，徐闻，遂溪 consider to be Luizhounese area has no Cantonese village. Wenchang, Haikou, Quonghai or other variants of Hainanese are mutually intelligible without previous exposure with Cantonese.
I was able to dig into the history of my ancestors through my surname, Long. In Chinese it means dragon. This surname has more than 3,000 years of history and according to records, there is a palace official who was really interested in dragon, hence the emperor back then gave him the surname. And the first settlement of the Long clan was in Wuling mountain, which is outskirt of today's Shanghai. In Malaysia and Singapore, most or maybe all people with this surname are Hainanese and Cantonese. The story of my ancestors before they moved to Hainan Island as soldiers was actually during almost the end of Northern Song Dynasty whereby Jurchen(Jin) soldiers from northern China conquered the dynasty in the year 1127. Yes, almost nine hundres years ago!! According to records, my ancestors were in Putian in Fujian(Hokkien) province at the height of the war and then moved to Wenchang, Hainan Island (Hailam in Hokkien or Malay) to set up a fort there. Some from the clan were posted to Foshan in Guangdong province and that explained some people by this surname are Cantonese people today. My ancestors had since almost 900 years ago, lived on Hainan Island and in the early 1930s, my late grandfather came to Malaya to work and eventually settled down with a family here and became a citizen of this blessed land. And then of course my father was born and raised here and the same goes to me. One interesting thing about my ancestors before they became Hainanese almost 900 years ago when they moved to Hainan Island from Putian, Fujian province is probably they were speaking Henghua dialect because they resided in Putian. And Putian dialect spoken by them actually evolved into the Hainan dialect of Wenchang after generations of them residing in Wenchang, Hainan Island. I even read before that some Hainanese people today even goes to Putian on Cheng Meng day every year to pay respects to their ancestors. And also since I mentioned earlier, the Long clan first settlement was in outskirt of today's Shanghai, they probably speak some old form of Wu dialect.
The descendants of the Qulong clan in the Yu-Shun period, according to the "General History · Clan Guide" and "The Words and Deeds of the Famous Clan" and other materials. According to legend (Dong FU), the surname is already, and he is good at raising dragons. He was given the surname "Longshi" by Shun for raising dragons. Long(龙）, Yi(已)and Dong(董) and Liao(廖) are from the same ancestor
Your ancestor (Dong Fu) raised dragons for Shun, and his fief is in today's Dingtao District, Heze City, Shandong Province Dong Fu father is Biao Shu An (飂叔安). He is the monarch of Biao State (Liao State). source: "The Twenty-Nine Years of Zuo Zhuan · Zhao Gong"
well the hengshan is only part of the mixture, migration records actually appear to show our ancestors stay along southerneastern coast lines for many generations and pick up local languages along the way, some stay, some decides to move in the decades, remember 900-700 years ago they are traveling by foot, even horse was a luxury letting alone boats so it's not like they decided they wanna go to an island in the southern sea they'd be there tmr. Also, our ancestors had to deal with numerous discrimination along the regions in canton, many of them are legit old school gangstas mastered in group fight with sharp weapons😂 And this tradition never actually goes away because in earlier days of settlement the lands are filled with indigenous li tribes and many clashes happened, but eventually we managed to live together but nevertheless han-style sinicized the locals to a grand degree till today. Btw my fiancee's surname is also Long:D here 's something u can understand without being from there: ua-cam.com/video/O8WT3G9RK8Y/v-deo.html it just proved this migration and language influence
I’m half/half actually. I unfortunately don’t have a lot of background knowledge about my own Hainanese history. So listening and watching your video about the hainan migration from Hainan island to SEA helped me to understand a little bit more about my own dialect group.
Not as good! The chicken meat in Hainan is so bloody tough that teeth may fell off eating them. My Mainland Hainanese relative comment on Singapore Hainan chicken rice. Don't call it Hainan chicken rice. 没有咬劲
Correction: No communist coup.Military coup sponsered by the CIA in INdonesia.Many Indonesians returned to China in the sixties because of racial genocide pepertrated against them.Please get your facts right.
wah .. this channel really informative .. at least, now, I could understand why Medanese hokkian language and food become unique and different from Malaysia one.
Slight correction, the Muslims (Hui) are recent refugees in Ming Dynasty from the collapsed Cham Kingdom in South Vietnam. They speaks language related to Malay, hence has a different origin from the Hui in mainland China.
Actually most Hainanese in Malaysia came to Singapore first instead of Penang as Singapore had been the Malayan transit point for Chinese immigrants from mid 1800s to mid 1900s.
Hello Hainan. The island is beautiful now. I got lost on Hainan island in 1983 . The Hainan police saved my life . They drove me and put me on Vietnamese boat people and our boat went to Hồng Kông . Thanks for the 2 police who saved my life. I wanted to contact them but I could not . Am now living in Canada but I still miss Hainan I will visit Hainan some day , once again, Am on behalf of Vietnamese boat Poeple say thank to all Hainan poeple who helped us in that difficult times.
@@FearlessPassport I am from Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia. Love your vlogs. They are interesting, informative and objective. I know you must have worked very hard and done a lot of in-depth research in creating these vlogs. Great jobs. 👏👏
According to an old identification paper, it appears that my late father -in -law was from Xuantou, village,Wen Chang in Hainan. To ensure my guess is correct, is it possible to let me know the people in this village are of the surname 'Tan' or 'Chen' in Chinese. I wish to trace my family roots in Hainan. I'm writing this hoping someone can help me on this.
@@FearlessPassport Hi I am from Singapore . I studied English in Singapore . How do you get the material to make this excellent video ? You also studied Mandarin right ?
I was born in Belgium and a descendant from my both grandfathers who were born in Wenchang. They went different way, one to wenchang >Vietnam > Belgium and the other one wenchang > Vietnam > Laos > Belgium.
@Huitribe Wang I had searched many times in Wikipedia and there is no mention that Michael Ying Lee Yuen is a Hakka. Can you tell me where did you get this information?
Semisal liburan ke Thai, ketemu tempat makan jual Khao Men Kai (Nasi Hainan)... dan lihat wajah penjualnya Chinese, jgn sungkan sapa pakai bahasa TeoChew... 😊😊😊
can you do some articles about the abandon old mining town or gying towns. Ecample siputih and Papan. it is a tragedy that some of thiese hisstorical towns just vanishes.
Hi Marduk David, you hv been too generous with your dating. New languages and 'kingdoms' did not come into existence until after 2850 BC, the year the Tower of Babel (1st 'pyramid') was destroyed. It's a fact there's no written record of any kind that can be found before 2850 BC. In those days there was no need for written record because all spoke one language and the people, who were actually family members, live long lives among themselves comprising of at least 4 to 5 generations. Which explains oral tradition being the norm. Btw, the Great Flood took place in 3298 BC. By today's standard, any claim of history that goes beyond 7,500 years would be highly suspect.
hahahahahaaa.... now i know a little fact about half-boiled egg! when i was little my parent and grandparent (who were chineses) fed me with this half-boiled egg and i like it. usually it served with sprinkle of pepper. and then when i started to worked, early 90's, i usually went to stall (warung) green bean porridge to enjoy half-boiled egg again. the egg that we use in indonesia for this half-boiled egg is free range chicken egg which has smaller size and this 'food' was considered as 'healthy food', now it lost its popularity.
Hello, I currently studying chinese traditions and indonesian chinese roots. But unfortunately I came from non-chinese ethnic group in Indonesia. May I join Discord group you've mentioned above? 感谢您
Good take ... Do u happen to be from Kuching or know the place well .., Am thinking about relocating there so any input you may have will be appreciated, thanks
I'm from Pahang actually haha but I've been to Kuching and Miri. Love Miri. The road and houses are so big and wide. The sky is so blue, everything is so spacious. Make my heart full with warmth and abundance✨
Thanks for the tip, will make it a point to check out Miri, is it better than Tanah Rata in Genting n other places in Pahang .. . Hopefully, Miri is not flooded by the year end rainy season like what occurs in Kuching ..
In Peninsular Malaysia, not all Hainanese went to Penang first. I think those in the east coast of Peninsular would be directly from Hainan. Of all the states in Malaysia, Terengganu has the highest percentage of Hainanese amongst the Chinese population, second after the Hokkien.
@@FearlessPassport I have watched your content yesterday and I was so pleased by the history of the Chinese people and the love they have for the world to unpack such great History. I'm here in South Africa
Hainanese here. My dad came from Hainan when he was 17 years old. If he was living today he would be 100 years old. Sad to say the Hainanese dialect is only passed to the first generation. My children all are "black chicken does not acknowledge ancestry lineage". 😁
Love it as always, but I want to add something that for me a little bit overlooked in this video, the Utsul people(or you called it Hui, but it has no similarity to other Hui in mainland except the faith). I understand that this is about overseas Chinese, and Utsul is not one in a sense Chinese as 华人, but Cham people, which is distantly related to Malay people (so in Malaysia, some nationalist called it Melayu Champa), just like Cham and Jarai people in Vietnam/Cambodia and Achenese in Indonesia. My reason for not to overlook the Utsul people is, because I think the most famous Hainanese person in SEA is an Utsul one. His name is Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, former Malaysian PM.
I am a Javanese and an Indonesian. I love to watch your youtube channel because I have curiosity in history and the way you explain is good, I don't understand some of the topics, I guess I need to look over your another eps. Thank you for this. Now I know some fun facts about hainanese.
Retnaning Ratri Matur Nuwun for loving Chinese programs. Teacup media has a lot of videos on Chinese dialects, History, culture in UA-cam.They are very in-depth. Please view them. Hope you gain from Teacup media videos.
I went to Hainan Island many years ago for a business trip. My Hong Kong distributor was with me on this trip. The first thing that surprised me was many of the Hainanese were speaking Cantonese. I can speak Cantonese as I am a Malaysian residing in Singapore.
My Hong Kong distributor told me Cantonese is commonly spoken because at one time Hainan Island was part of Guandong province.
Only a few Hainanese people can speak Cantonese in Hainan Island.
It would be alright if the Hainanese can still speak Hainanese.
@NS Ng Politically governed in a same province which speaks a dominant dialect like Cantonese has nothing to do with the dialects spoken in the outer prefectures.No mather how long the Prefecture was under its jurisdiction. The dialect/language spoken is linked to the ethnicity of the people there. Guangdong Province has 21 Prefectures. Not all of
them speaks Cantonese.Eg. Shantou 汕頭市,prefecture speaks Chaozhou 潮州
dialect. Meizhou,Heyuan Prefectures speak Hakka. That Hongkie
is trying to mislead people to think that Cantonese is h
Province high and mighty. In fact 15% of Hongkies are of non Cantonese ethnicity.
Group supremacist and extremist Be careful
@NS Ng Wah! Sounds eerie
you really met 'many' Hainanese who speak
Cantonese. Engkau ada dengar salah? My mother in law is Hainanese born and bred in Hainan. She said she never meet any native Hainanese who spoke Cantonese
in Hainan.
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I'm a Malaysian Hainanese. Thank you for the information. I have always wanted to find out which part of Hainan Island my ancestors came from.
Actually Hainanese originally came from Guangdong and Fujian, they migrated there a few hundreds of years ago.
Awesome video again! I'm Singaporean Hainanese, this video makes me well up in provincial pride
Thank you 🙏 Singapore sling is from your place :） hehe you deserved the pride!
我来自中国海南，为什么都是英语，我觉得我们疏远了。。
Thanks for this information. I'm a Hainanese from Singapore, it's nice to learn about the origins of Hainanese. ☺️ Yes another surname ,such as mine 符 seems to be uniquely only for Hainanese.
Yes 符 and also 詹
@@maestrolik Yes 符 is the 5th largest surname in hainan, my relatives have both 符 and 詹, I am a 林 which also traces back to recent canto and hokkien lines.
but both of them aren't unique to hainan, they are a bit rare as they are 251th and 254th in the hundred surname log but they are also in quite common in several provinces
Only with Foo surname are classify confirm original Hainanese. :) If you may notice surname like Lim can be either hokkien or hainanese or Hakka etc .... 😆
Thank you for this episode, my Ancestor came from qionghai 琼海, 嘉积市,溪边 村。
My grand father open coffee shop, my father work in hotel line (Batu ferringhi) . Very well researched. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Thank you Michael :) so nice that you can trace back to your origins. Have you been to 溪边村 before?
Michael Chuan, I have been back to my ancestor home in 琼海县，嘉积市,溪边 村 two years ago. If I am not mistaken, we have the same surname too - Chuan 全. For your info, there is still a Chuan Clan village which I have accidentally bumped into during my short evening tour of my ancestor home.
@@ricjun3001 That's so interesting to know. So surname 全 translate to 'Jun' in English?
That's my hometown Batu ferringhi was full of hailam restaurants and coffee shops slowly fading away
Hainanese born in VietNam, now leave in Belgium for more than 4 decades. I really appreciated your post, I learnt a corner of my ancestors island. I forwarded the link to my family, I received 5 Thanh you from them.
So my turn to Thank you for this amazing post.❤
I am a hainanese born in PJ, malaysja and now living in London. Trying to teach my son's hainanese as it is not much spoken with mandarin being the emphasis. I think that Hainanese, the dialect will disappear fast. Only my generatjon , the 40s , are left to speak it well. I enjoy languages and speak English, Malay, mandarin, Cantonese, Hainan and French. Hope we can find a way to preserve these amazing dialects , be in Hainan, hokkien, teochew, Hakka, Cantonese, Shanghainese and so on.
You are a talented polyglot. You can speak French! Same like you, I also speak 6 languages English, Malay, mandarin, Cantonese, *Hakka and *very very little spanish. and Indonesian which is very similar to Malay :)
Hainanese is rather difficult to speak in my opinion though, but it's very special. a lot of "v" and "d‘ sound in the pronunciation.
Hi , I am Hainanese from Singapore , already 70 plus years old . It is amazing you know so many languages !
I used to work in banking .
Now retired .What do you do in London ? You emigrated to UK ?
Same here enjoy speaking different dialects and languages
Me too! I m Malaysian Hainanese & love to learn and speak other languages/dialects too! Besides Hainanese, I have no problem communicating in English, Malay, Mandarin, Cantonese, Hokkien and some bits of Teochew & Hakka. 😊😊
@@bojongkia123 Interesting, that explains why so many Hainanese is good in cooking!
I am a Hainanese from Singapore. Thanks for this video!:)
Very informative and accurate research. My mother was from a non-Han ethnic group living in the highland. I now know my father was probably from 1 of the 3 eastern counties. I remembered the roasting of the coffee beans in my father's kopi tiam in Changi, Singapore back in the 1960s. I now reside in Richmond Hill, Canada and I hope to have a kopi with condensed milk and kaya and butter spread on a toasted white bread in a kopi tiam one day.
@allan, given your surname you are probably from Wen Chang. 😊
@Allan Foo Agreed.Foo,符 雲 Woon,龍,Liang are surnames peculiar to WenChang, 文昌Boon Sio.
@@laurencechan470 Hello, a suki here from Selangor, Malaysia. I am a Woon 雲 of Boon siur /Wen Chang. Proud to be a Hainanese. Is it true the Hainanese people are direct descendants of Genghis Khan?
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My maternal grandfather and mother side are Foo, migrated from Boonsio. A food caterer for cruise ships; after the war, owned a nightclub in singapore in the 60's. Paternal side Wong were also in food business in singapore.
Well researched. Very useful and greatly valued contributions to the knowledge of the history and background of Hainanese people.
My late grandfather and my 86 yo father were migrants from Wenchang to Malaya. My Grandfather was a kopitiam owner whereas his cousins were kopi traders. 1st generation hainanese still speaks hainanese (with both parents are from hainanese clan) whilst the 2nd generation (failed to converse and understand hainanese, also due to mixed marriage with other ethnic/dialect group). Most young hainanese now converse in Mandarin with their families at home.
I'm also pure hainanese and my grandparents were also kopitiam owners both paternal and maternal sides. My grandad also from Bonsio/wenchang. I spoke hainanese with my parents and relatives since young but now I seldom speak hainanese.
Hello Thanks for making this video. I am a hainanese from Singapore. You are very good and look like you have a lot of information. Just wanted to know what direct you are.
Thank you for this very interesting and informative video. I’m a 3rd generation Chinese from Fujian province. I live in Kuala Lumpur now but very much interested in my grandfather’s lao jia.
Kopi, kaya toast, half boiled eggs- our staple breakfast. I’m so happy when i found these breakfast set oversea!! Looking forward to your next video to learn more! My bf is from 福建，福州 and my ancestor background is 福建，泉州 Interesting to know, I don’t understand his dialect.
The Hui people in Hainan are actually Champa Muslims. They are Champa descendants was destroyed by the Vietnamese.They are not Hui (a mixture of Han, Arab, Persian)
May I know where I can read the history of Champa Muslims migration to Hainan. I tried to imagine the Chams using boats to
land in Hainan like in 1978 and thereafter the
Chinese rode on boats
to run away from communism. Or is it the Chams ran at the same time?
My grandfather and grandmother are from Hainan around 1929 .
He owned and opened the biggest bakery shop in Singapore in around 1940s before I was borned in 92 Palembang road where Golden Mile hawker centre was situated. The singapore government demolisted all the houses in our precint .
He employed around 20 workers working 24 hrs round the clock every day. I helped to sell the breads at the cashier counter .
It was in 1965 to 1967 when I was studying in Victoria secondary school .
My mother would sat the trishaw to go market to buy the foods to cook for our workers lunch and dinners every day.
Every Chinese new year eve , my grand father would buy long rolls of fire crackers to fire and burn .
The sounds were delfening and exploded very loud and noisy .
I helped him to hold the bamboo pole that was used to hang the long rolls of fire crackers .
Next morning , the first day of CNY , the whole of Palembang road
looked like a very long red carpet .
We received red packets containing $1.20 only .
We enjoyed drinking the sinakco bottled drinks and pepsi drinks also.
We played cards among our self with our workers and neighbours peoples .
Most of our workers are hainanese.
I havent come across alot of hainan people but their food like the hainanese chicken rice is almost everywhere in Malaysia!
One of the most famous Hainanese chicken rice in Bangkok is Go Ang chicken rice at Pratunam.
Its correct to say Hainanese Chicken rice is everywhere in Malaysia but most are "fake" Hainanese chicken rice, the chili sauce is no where near the original and the Chicken Rice is not real Chicken Rice but Margarine Rice.
@@seebauong9593 in Thailand too it’s Thai style Hainanese chicken rice.
@@seebauong9593 Yes..agreed. Hainanese Chicken Rice signages hung on their stalls only 😅 Unfortunately none is hainanese and doesn’t taste authentic. I’ll at times be naughty and order/speak to them in Hainanese to ‘see’ their response to confirm if they’re actual passed down HCRice recipes or not 😂 Malaysian Hainanese living in Cyberjaya.
Great efforts have been put into this presentation. Great job.
Appreciate your presence, Chin Kang 🙏
This is a complex and nuanced commentary that imparts real and balanced information. Above all, it is fearless.
感謝妳的分享！長知識！Terima kasih！I was born in Selangor, but left for HK when I was just 4 yrs old. I wish I could speak several Chinese dialects and Malay like you do.
好酷啊，我就是海南人！很少见到有人发海南的视频。点赞👍我住三亚，我的祖辈是福建人，明朝的时候移居海南。
I have no doubt now why I love Kopi, Kaya and toast so much ! ❤ Grand daughter of Hainanese from Tanniu, Wenchang ! I spent a year in Hainan 20 years ago. One of the best times in my life. 🎉❤. Love from Bangkok.
Great video. Liked and subbed. Keep it coming. :) From a Sporean now living in Australia. My relatives all speak Cantonese and Hakka. So guess I'm also from Southern China.
I love your video. It is very informative. I always like to know how's all our ancestor come to South East Asia. You did amazing job. Seems we have many common interest. 😁
This is still a tip of the iceberg :) 10 minutes hardly cover everything. We have yet to discover 琼剧 opera and songs. Haha. Hope you can dive deeper than me!
My paternal and maternal grandparents migrated from Hainan.
My father opened a coffee shop.
My maternal grandfather opened a bakery.
Your "Chong" surname hint at a Hakka ancestry.
Thank you for this interesting video! I'm from Poland actually, but I studied 6 months at 海南大学 and I'm wrtiting my thesis on Hainan. I love this piece of land, I miss it and I definitely would lIke to go back to explore the Coconut Island even further.
Great👍👏Looking forward to more in depth research and video on Hainanese despora🙏🙏
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Good video 👍
Really appreciate your effort to share history of Hainanese 🙇♂️
I am Indonesian Hok chew.. cant wait to know more about Hok chew
I am 2nd generation American born and raised in the USA.
My family immigrated from Vietnam to the USA in the 1970's. My mom was born in Vietnam, but her father was from the Hainan island. My mom's mom is from the Guangdong area. My mom has no Vietnamese lineage, and she identifies as Chinese.
Hainan is where my grandfather on my mom's side came from. He immigrated from Hainan to Vietnam around 1936 to start his own business. I think he was straight up Hainanese and spoke the Hainanese dialect. I've never met him, so I can only guess what he was like. I don't think I have any Han northern Chinese blood in me. So my Hainan lineage is dated waaaaay back before 1936.
Every time I try to explain to everyone why I look super Chinese, people don't get that I'm 3+ generations removed from this island. When I tell people that I'm of Chinese-descent, they immediately stereotype me as the mainland-type of Chinese. Little do they know that they're incorrect, but I don't like getting into detail about what kind of Chinese I am, because it's too long of a story to tell.
I had no idea what Hainan culture is like, because I'm more in touch with my Vietnamese side, and I'm a few generations removed from this culture. UA-cam allowed me to conceptualize and visualize what it's like over there. I’m sure Hainan has changed a lot since my my grandfather left in 1936. I’d like to visit one day. Thanks for reading!
Hi, from Pekanbaru, Indonesia. Thank you for doing this amazing videos. Appreciate it very much. Pls consider making a Bahasa version.
Very interesting and well done video.
My father came from 广西 before world war 2. My mother was from Malaysia. My parents owned a Chinese restaurant cum coffee shop. I m the second generation. Mid 70s.
I visited my ancestors In 广西. But have not got a chance to visit 海南岛 yet.
It's a great video 😊
I am a pure Hainanese.
Paternal and maternal grandparents are Hainanese.
Parents are Hainanese.
All my siblings spoke Hainanese.
Unfortunately our descendants do not.
They speak English and Mandarin.
Same here
You can start teaching them Hainanese ✨
haha i am hainanese too, well "pure" hainanese actually don't exist, the island itself is an immigrant island historically and especially if your family happen to be from the eastern and northern side of island, u mostly likely have cantonese and hokkien ancestry mixed just as I am (and more, such as Li). History is long and complicated so let's skip some of that part but note that hainan as an province did not exist until 1988, it was all qiongdao(hingddao) cantonese in identity before that.
You could classify the Li tribes westernmost end of the island as indigenous because the earliest of their group had been on the island for 3k years+. Li (Hlai)language should be the real hainanese here but our forefathers' influential confucian cultural indoctrination and mixing with them made 90% of them able to speak hainanese and mandarin now. But also note that official wenchang Hainanese was originally ancient min language and had been influenced with proto-sino-viet languages of the bach viet tribes as immigration along south-eastern coastline of china took places for many generations (a significant migration wave is around mongolian rule in the 13th century), thus many of its consonants and vowel tones developed along influences with the kra-dai languages, now the language is classified as Leizhou-Qiongzhou min , first hand evidence is that if you speak wenchang hainanese you can communicate with luichow area cantonese people with ease.
Luichow Min: ua-cam.com/video/O8WT3G9RK8Y/v-deo.html
Kenny. Whatever the case it is we are Suki.
@@baqikenny Really! According to statistics
the 3 counties, 雷州市，徐闻，遂溪 consider to be Luizhounese area has no Cantonese village. Wenchang, Haikou, Quonghai or other variants
of Hainanese are mutually
intelligible without previous exposure with Cantonese.
I was able to dig into the history of my ancestors through my surname, Long. In Chinese it means dragon.
This surname has more than 3,000 years of history and according to records, there is a palace official who was really interested in dragon, hence the emperor back then gave him the surname. And the first settlement of the Long clan was in Wuling mountain, which is outskirt of today's Shanghai. In Malaysia and Singapore, most or maybe all people with this surname are Hainanese and Cantonese.
The story of my ancestors before they moved to Hainan Island as soldiers was actually during almost the end of Northern Song Dynasty whereby Jurchen(Jin) soldiers from northern China conquered the dynasty in the year 1127. Yes, almost nine hundres years ago!! According to records, my ancestors were in Putian in Fujian(Hokkien) province at the height of the war and then moved to Wenchang, Hainan Island (Hailam in Hokkien or Malay) to set up a fort there. Some from the clan were posted to Foshan in Guangdong province and that explained some people by this surname are Cantonese people today. My ancestors had since almost 900 years ago, lived on Hainan Island and in the early 1930s, my late grandfather came to Malaya to work and eventually settled down with a family here and became a citizen of this blessed land. And then of course my father was born and raised here and the same goes to me.
One interesting thing about my ancestors before they became Hainanese almost 900 years ago when they moved to Hainan Island from Putian, Fujian province is probably they were speaking Henghua dialect because they resided in Putian. And Putian dialect spoken by them actually evolved into the Hainan dialect of Wenchang after generations of them residing in Wenchang, Hainan Island. I even read before that some Hainanese people today even goes to Putian on Cheng Meng day every year to pay respects to their ancestors. And also since I mentioned earlier, the Long clan first settlement was in outskirt of today's Shanghai, they probably speak some old form of Wu dialect.
@Gold Shine thousands ethnics is an exaggeration
My step grandma’s surname is dragon too.
Thank you so much for the history behind the 龍 family.
The descendants of the Qulong clan in the Yu-Shun period, according to the "General History · Clan Guide" and "The Words and Deeds of the Famous Clan" and other materials.
According to legend (Dong FU), the surname is already, and he is good at raising dragons. He was given the surname "Longshi" by Shun for raising dragons.
Long(龙）, Yi(已)and Dong(董) and Liao(廖) are from the same ancestor
Your ancestor (Dong Fu) raised dragons for Shun, and his fief is in today's Dingtao District, Heze City, Shandong Province
Dong Fu father is Biao Shu An (飂叔安). He is the monarch of Biao State (Liao State).
source:
"The Twenty-Nine Years of Zuo Zhuan · Zhao Gong"
well the hengshan is only part of the mixture, migration records actually appear to show our ancestors stay along southerneastern coast lines for many generations and pick up local languages along the way, some stay, some decides to move in the decades, remember 900-700 years ago they are traveling by foot, even horse was a luxury letting alone boats so it's not like they decided they wanna go to an island in the southern sea they'd be there tmr. Also, our ancestors had to deal with numerous discrimination along the regions in canton, many of them are legit old school gangstas mastered in group fight with sharp weapons😂 And this tradition never actually goes away because in earlier days of settlement the lands are filled with indigenous li tribes and many clashes happened, but eventually we managed to live together but nevertheless han-style sinicized the locals to a grand degree till today.
Btw my fiancee's surname is also Long:D
here 's something u can understand without being from there: ua-cam.com/video/O8WT3G9RK8Y/v-deo.html
it just proved this migration and language influence
A wonderful history of the Hainanese people around the region!
Thank you for watching :)
Interesting. Quite well documented. TQ
well done. keep up the good works....good !
Well done! Thank you for your up-load.
Your videos are well-researched and well-presented. You are also pleasant to look at.
The half-boiled egg not only be found in Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia but in every provinces of Thailand too.
Thank you for uploading the video on Hainan island 👍🏻
Fantastic ….. thank you so much for your resourceful information.
🙏❤️🌹
thanks for Hainan video. I will be waiting for your next blog.
Being waiting for this. Thanks for the Cantonese video and this one! 😊
Which one do you like better? :)
The hainanese one, because I don’t know a lot about them sadly
@@lineyking Haha no wonder :) So are you a Cantonese?
I’m half/half actually. I unfortunately don’t have a lot of background knowledge about my own Hainanese history. So listening and watching your video about the hainan migration from Hainan island to SEA helped me to understand a little bit more about my own dialect group.
@@lineyking Glad it gave some insights :))))
Tq tq tq Yeeven... Been waiting for your new video. Great job
Awesome video 👍Very informative 👏 I once had Hainanese chicken in Wenchang. It wasn't as good as the one in Malaysia or Singapore 😋
Not as good! The chicken meat in Hainan is so bloody
tough that teeth may fell off eating them. My Mainland
Hainanese relative comment on Singapore Hainan chicken rice. Don't call it Hainan chicken rice. 没有咬劲
Greetings from our beautiful island of Penang, Malaysia. My parents were from Hainan Island. My dad was cook. Defu
Good explanation. I love your video. Keep up the good work ❤️❤️❤️
u look like hainanese girl ! sincere n hardworking! beautifull too!!
Loved this. You did it again. Thanks so much.
just made me giddy with the loud background music.
My parents opened a coffee shop.
My grandfather opened a bakery.
Hainanese were the last to arrive in the South Seas.
Keep it up. Learning a lot from your work👍
Correction: No communist coup.Military coup sponsered by the CIA in INdonesia.Many Indonesians returned to China in the sixties because of racial genocide pepertrated against them.Please get your facts right.
Another nice sharing, Yeeven. Hahaha..the Hainanese chicken is not famous in Indonesia as in Malaysia and Singapore.
My grandfather had rubber plantation and a small rubber processing workshop in Wenchang, it was more than a hundred years ago.
Замечательно😊. Спасибо за интересную историю.
Great job! Keep it up!
Great work. Good for Chinese diaspora especially those English educated where such information are lacking.
wah .. this channel really informative .. at least, now, I could understand why Medanese hokkian language and food become unique and different from Malaysia one.
Slight correction, the Muslims (Hui) are recent refugees in Ming Dynasty from the collapsed Cham Kingdom in South Vietnam. They speaks language related to Malay, hence has a different origin from the Hui in mainland China.
Actually most Hainanese in Malaysia came to Singapore first instead of Penang as Singapore had been the Malayan transit point for Chinese immigrants from mid 1800s to mid 1900s.
That's true of my parents. First stop Singapore them Malaya. My paternal aunt remained in Singapore and had her family there.
I am hainanese born in indonesia, but when i speak hainanese its mixed with hokkienese and a bit of indonesian. Quite sad that the language is dying
Hello Hainan.
The island is beautiful now.
I got lost on Hainan island in 1983 .
The Hainan police saved my life .
They drove me and put me on Vietnamese boat people and our boat went to Hồng Kông . Thanks for the 2 police who saved my life. I wanted to contact them but I could not . Am now living in Canada but I still miss Hainan
I will visit Hainan some day , once again,
Am on behalf of Vietnamese boat Poeple say thank to all Hainan poeple who helped us in that difficult times.
My ancestors are from Bonsio. My mum is nynonya Hainanese and my dad Bonsio Hainanese. I love to visit Hainan one day.
I like educational channel like this
👍👍👍 Thanks for another lovely vlog. 💐👏
Thanks again Sylvester, you're too kind and I appreciate your support so much 🙏 are you from KL?
@@FearlessPassport
I am from Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia.
Love your vlogs. They are interesting, informative and objective.
I know you must have worked very hard and done a lot of in-depth research in creating these vlogs.
Great jobs. 👏👏
@@sylvesterfong9275 I really appreciate you :) Are you a Foochow?
@@FearlessPassport
You have forgotten.
I am a cantonese, but speak Hakka - (Hopoh/Sin on ) following my mum.
@@sylvesterfong9275 I'm sorry 🙏 I will remember now, haha😇
According to an old identification paper, it appears that my late father -in -law was from Xuantou, village,Wen Chang in Hainan. To ensure my guess is correct, is it possible to let me know the people in this village are of the surname 'Tan' or 'Chen' in Chinese. I wish to trace my family roots in Hainan. I'm writing this hoping someone can help me on this.
Is there a discord group for Malaysian Chinese dispora
Excellent video !
Are you Hainanese ?
You speak excellent English.
Did you learn English in Hainan Island .?
No I'm a Hakka + Cantonese. We learn English in Malaysia :) How about you?
@@FearlessPassport Hi
I am from Singapore .
I studied English in Singapore .
How do you get the material to make this excellent video ?
You also studied Mandarin right ?
I was born in Belgium and a descendant from my both grandfathers who were born in Wenchang. They went different way, one to wenchang >Vietnam > Belgium and the other one wenchang > Vietnam > Laos > Belgium.
这小妹妹做的很好视频。海外的海南同胞们，你们知道家乡现在的发展现状吗？自由贸易岛。希望你们回家来走走，看看。
@Huitribe Wang I had
searched many times in Wikipedia and there
is no mention that Michael Ying Lee Yuen
is a Hakka. Can you
tell me where did you
get this information?
Yeewen you are my best Chinese dialects historical provider thank you very much. My ancestors are from Hainan island. THANKS n god bless.
Semisal liburan ke Thai, ketemu tempat makan jual Khao Men Kai (Nasi Hainan)... dan lihat wajah penjualnya Chinese, jgn sungkan sapa pakai bahasa TeoChew... 😊😊😊
can you do some articles about the abandon old mining town or gying towns. Ecample siputih and Papan. it is a tragedy that some of thiese hisstorical towns just vanishes.
Very informative .Thank you
I think there is a strong connection between South Indian(Tamil) and Chinese communities that goes back 11000years.
Yes I believe so. Those are huge kingdoms in the old times.
Like how, can you elaborate?
Hi Marduk David, you hv been too generous with your dating. New languages and 'kingdoms' did not come into existence until after 2850 BC, the year the Tower of Babel (1st 'pyramid') was destroyed. It's a fact there's no written record of any kind that can be found before 2850 BC. In those days there was no need for written record because all spoke one language and the people, who were actually family members, live long lives among themselves comprising of at least 4 to 5 generations. Which explains oral tradition being the norm. Btw, the Great Flood took place in 3298 BC. By today's standard, any claim of history that goes beyond 7,500 years would be highly suspect.
hahahahahaaa.... now i know a little fact about half-boiled egg! when i was little my parent and grandparent (who were chineses) fed me with this half-boiled egg and i like it. usually it served with sprinkle of pepper. and then when i started to worked, early 90's, i usually went to stall (warung) green bean porridge to enjoy half-boiled egg again. the egg that we use in indonesia for this half-boiled egg is free range chicken egg which has smaller size and this 'food' was considered as 'healthy food', now it lost its popularity.
Hello Hainan.
I am still looking for the 2 police who helped me and saved my life when I got lost on the island. Am living in Canada now.
Interesting story👍
Terima kasih Irfan :)))
This is a very good effort as an introduction to the subject. Keep up the good work. 👏 btw, are you hainanese ?
I'm not :))) I'm a Hakka + Cantonese :)
@@FearlessPassport Good effort. Keep it up.
@@FearlessPassport Sama kampong lah -- Quangdong.
@@FearlessPassport You actually have the Hainanese look!!
Hello, I currently studying chinese traditions and indonesian chinese roots. But unfortunately I came from non-chinese ethnic group in Indonesia. May I join Discord group you've mentioned above? 感谢您
Yes! The link is in the description box below :)
So great👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Bo kai (thank you in hainanese) Louis :)😊
@@FearlessPassport 🙌🏻👌🏻
Half boiled eggs also served in hatyai.
Well done that's interesting 😅
nice!!!
video is nice....
Good take ...
Do u happen to be from Kuching or know the place well ..,
Am thinking about relocating there so any input you may have will be appreciated, thanks
I'm from Pahang actually haha but I've been to Kuching and Miri. Love Miri. The road and houses are so big and wide. The sky is so blue, everything is so spacious. Make my heart full with warmth and abundance✨
Thanks for the tip, will make it a point to check out Miri, is it better than Tanah Rata
in Genting n other places in Pahang .. .
Hopefully, Miri is not flooded by the year end rainy season like what occurs in Kuching ..
Is Hainan similar with hoinam(Hakka dialek)??
Because my father said his parents are from hoinam!🙏
In Peninsular Malaysia, not all Hainanese went to Penang first. I think those in the east coast of Peninsular would be directly from Hainan. Of all the states in Malaysia, Terengganu has the highest percentage of Hainanese amongst the Chinese population, second after the Hokkien.
I am from Bali. There are many Chinese tomb near my Village. But no Chinese People There. I think they already move
The surname 符 is unique to hainanese according to my grandpa who migrated to Malaysia from Hainan island.
Nice
Bring more content, please, My friend
Thank you Veron ✨😉
@@FearlessPassport I have watched your content yesterday and I was so pleased by the history of the Chinese people and the love they have for the world to unpack such great History. I'm here in South Africa
how can i know the pronvices names in hainanese because i can only speak hainanese
Hainanese here. My dad came from Hainan when he was 17 years old. If he was living today he would be 100 years old. Sad to say the Hainanese dialect is only passed to the first generation. My children all are "black chicken does not acknowledge ancestry lineage". 😁
是黑鸡不认种：海南文昌话
@@wenqianxiao7061 Thank you for the correct translation... couldn't find the correct word. Haha
Same here. I raised ‘’black chickens’’ too.Fault of the father . Ha-ha
In Hainanese it's: Owe Koi Bo Jin Chian
THE HAINAN WORD IS OF A BAHASA SUG ORIGIN--THE LANGUAGE OF THE SULTANATE OF SULU...
No wonder la....when i listening to Hainanese ppl speaking, i feel like there are many similarities among Hokkien, teochew & cantonese dialects...
Love it as always, but I want to add something that for me a little bit overlooked in this video, the Utsul people(or you called it Hui, but it has no similarity to other Hui in mainland except the faith). I understand that this is about overseas Chinese, and Utsul is not one in a sense Chinese as 华人, but Cham people, which is distantly related to Malay people (so in Malaysia, some nationalist called it Melayu Champa), just like Cham and Jarai people in Vietnam/Cambodia and Achenese in Indonesia. My reason for not to overlook the Utsul people is, because I think the most famous Hainanese person in SEA is an Utsul one. His name is Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, former Malaysian PM.
They are small group of around 2,000 so it's not too hard to overlook them if you didn't know who they were in the first place.
Agree! He does have that 'behdey' look about him.