Astro Hua Hee Dai or Astro Hua Hee Dai HD (for HD version) is a 24-hour Hokkien (Min Nan) channel operated by Malaysian pay-TV channel operated by Astro.
Min Nan, the Chinese language group spoken by the Hoklo
The (sub)ethnic group for which Southern Min is considered a native language is known as the Holo (Hō-ló) or Hoklo, the main ethnicity of Taiwan.
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Many ethnic Chinese emigrants to the region were Hoklo from southern Fujian, and brought the language to what is now Burma (Myanmar), Indonesia (the former Dutch East Indies) and present day Malaysia and Singapore (formerly Malaya and the British Straits Settlements).
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The correspondence between language and ethnicity is generally true though not absolute, as some Hoklo have very limited proficiency in Southern Min while some non-Hoklos speak Southern Min fluently.
It is a fishing base and trade port, and is home to a number of small appetisers from the Min Nan region.
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In Singapore and Malaysia it is more commonly known by its names tow huay or tau huay in Min Nan, or by the Cantonese name (tau fu fa) with the Cantonese variation being more common in Malaysia, in fact it is almost exclusively known as tau fu fa there while tau huey is generally associated with Singapore.
In Hokkien, the market was known as Tek Kia Kha, literally meaning "foot of the small bamboos", as bamboo plants once grew on the banks of the Rochor Canal.
Taiwanese Hokkien, a variety of the Min Nan language group, also called Holo
Quanzhou is the only Min Nan Language with 8 tones, of which 6th tone is present.
The Philippine Min Nan Language follows the 8 tones of Quanzhou because many of the Chinese Filipino how speak Min Nan Language in the Philippines there ancestors are form Quanzhou (Fujian) in China.
Taiwanese Hokkien, a variety of Min Nan Chinese, which could be indicated more specifically by nan-TW.
Zhenan Min (浙南闽语), variety of Min Nan Chinese spoken in southern Zhejiang