Kim-mn̂g -Golden Gate-

Zheng Fanpai was born and raised in Kinmen and is a senior historical and cultural researcher. Kinmenese Hokkien, related to the Tongan Quanzhou dialect, features eight pure vowels and has two more central vowels than the dominant Taiwanese Hokkien variant (er and ir) and rules governing tonal sandhi are also slightly different. Zheng Fanpai mentioned that most of the foreign loanwords used in Taiwanese Hokkien are from Japanese, while in Kinmen the majority of loanwords come from Austronesian languages such as Indonesian and Malay. Even today, the language retains the history of cultural interaction experienced on Matsu.