Sunday, May 27, 2007

Lu Gue Speak Hokkien

Interesting trivia #1 -

The commonly heard Jakarta variety pronouns 2nd person lu (lo, elu, elo) and 1st person gue (gua, gwe, gwa) are actually borrowed from the Hokkien Chinese language.

2 comments:

Denica said...

really????


seriously, you seem to know more than i do.

David said...

As to your question, yep, really. As to your second statement, well that depends on what we're talking about.