Keeping the Penang Hokkien dialect alive
DURING my childhood days in the 1990s, it can be safely said that Hokkien was the undisputed lingua franca among the Chinese in Penang.
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DURING my childhood days in the 1990s, it can be safely said that Hokkien was the undisputed lingua franca among the Chinese in Penang.
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