Malaysian Foochowese News
January 23, 2007My friend William Lau sent me a short audio file of the Foochowese news broadcast in Sarawak, Malaysia. To speak the truth, I was quite surprised by this accent when I first heard it. Its most prominent features that makes it distinguishable from Foochow downtown accent are the lack of “initial assimilations” and “close/open rimes“. But a Foochowese would understand most part of it, whether he has the backround knowledge or not.
I guess most Malaysian Foochowese are originally Mìng-chiăng (閩清) or Kŭ-chèng (古田) decents… well then again, maybe not. 
I put its text here, so that you won’t get lost.
ΟΟΟΟ我國人民ΟΟ政府舉行 2007 年大馬旅游年獲得成功，州政府將繼續加強努力，以提昇本州XX事業其質量共數量。本州遘了 2008 年將有自家其Ο稻谷種子加工中心。本州預料將有三萬余中國人口遘本州來觀光，以配合 2007 年大馬旅游年。以下是新聞內容。
