Saturday 1 October 2022

Money

In our homeland, money is called “ngeng5 ” as in silver.  Ten Yuan or Ten RMB is said as “zab8ngeng5 十銀”.

However, different places have different ways of saying ngeng5.

Teochew

潮州

ngeng5

Swatow

汕頭

ngeng5

Gig’Ion

揭陽

ngêng5

Dio’Ion

潮陽

nging5

TêngHai

澄海

ngeng5

Riao5pêng5

饒平

ngeng5

Ngeng5 is like ngeng5hang5 銀行 for a bank – where hang5 means company or business – silver company or cia1hang5 車行 for any car related business.


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