As a child, CNA TODAY's Loraine Lee was fluent in Teochew, but she can barely form a sentence in the Chinese dialect now. She ...

and even fewer parents who both speak the Teochew dialect,” Tay noted. A population in decline This demographic shift is a pressing concern for Penghulu Chua Hiong Kee, honorary life chairman ...

The seven Chinese dialects spoken here are Cantonese, Teochew, Hokkien, Hakka, Hainanese and Guangxi, dialects spoken in southern China, as the ancestors of Malaysian Chinese mostly originated ...