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Fookien
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English
Etymology
From the en zh-postal - of the Mandarin (late imperial lingua franca) Nanking court dialect en cmn 福建 Fújiàn, from before the modern palatalization of [k] to [t͡ɕ].Kaske Elisabeth The Politics of Language in Chinese Education, 1895–1919 https://books.google.com.ph/books?id=okhrBBmnHVQC&printsec=frontcover&dq=isbn:9789004163676&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=peking&f=false 2008 Koninklijke Brill NV Leiden 978-90-04-16367-6 52 See also en Foochow, en Fooching, en Soochow. Compare es Fokien.
Proper noun
en Philippines en Fukien.
Adjective
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en Philippines en Fukien.
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