Pronunciation of "tsiah pa bue"
I'm sorry, I don't know of anyway to write in Taiwanese!

"Have you eaten/Hello"

I have always pronounced the last word (bue) as a low tone. However, when I was watching a youtube video I heard someone say it with with a high pitched neutral tone. (I also saw a different youtube video where they said it the same way I say it).

Could this be a north/south accent difference?

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Pronunciation of "tsiah pa bue"
I'm sorry, I don't know of anyway to write in Taiwanese!

"Have you eaten/Hello"

I have always pronounced the last word (bue) as a low tone. However, when I was watching a youtube video I heard someone say it with with a high pitched neutral tone. (I also saw a different youtube video where they said it the same way I say it).

Could this be a north/south accent difference?

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tsiah pá buē

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my grandparents are from central taiwan and they always pronounce it more like in the third (ˇ) tone

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I may be wrong but I think it's written either 吃飯無? or 吃飯嘸?

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@SoCal

You're right, a lot of people just type Mandarin and read Hokkien :-) "食饱未？" would be more accurate. Tsiah8 is the colloquial pronunciation (白读) of 食 (文读: sit8 or sek8). I am not sure about the 未 bue - maybe some people say 无 bo5, too？

Best,
Aurelio

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Thank you everyone, I guess it can go either way.

Here are the two youtube examples I was referring to (with the timestamp):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ID-llGO-GaE&feature;=youtu.be&t;=22
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfVoDW05LMM&feature;=youtu.be&t;=1182

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