Global Interpreting understands the importance of working in the Hokkien language. For over 10 years, Global Interpreting has worked with the Hokkien language as well as hundreds of other from around the word. We are a one stop full language service provider. Offering Over the Phone, Video Remote, Face to Face, Transcription, Document and Website Translation in 150 languages including American Sign Language (ASL) nation and worldwide.

Hokkien is a dialect of Min Nan Chinese spoken in southern Fujian, Taiwan, and by many overseas Chinese throughout Southeast Asia. The language is also known by other terms such as Minnanyu, Fulaohua.

It is closely related to Teochew, though mutual comprehension is difficult, and somewhat more distantly related to Hainanese, with which it shares only minimal intelligibility.

Hokkien includes a variety of dialects of which Amoy and Taiwanese prestige dialect (based on Tainan variant) are considered standards, being in the middle of dialectic divides and thus enjoying the highest intelligibility amongst the varying dialects.

All variants of Hokkien dialects, be it Amoy, Taiwanese and those spoken in South East Asia, can be traced to two sources of origin: Quanzhou speech and Zhangzhou speech. Both Amoy and Taiwanese are based on a mixture of Quanzhou and Zhangzhou speeches, while the rest of the Hokkien dialects spoken in South East Asia are either derived from Quanzhou and Zhangzhou, or based on a mixture of both speeches.

After the Opium War in 1842, Xiamen (Amoy) became one of the major treaty ports to be opened for trade with the outside world. From mid 19th century onwards, Xiamen slowly developed to become the political, economical and cultural center of the Hokkien-speaking region in China. This caused Amoy dialect to gradually become the "Prestige Standard Hokkien", thus replacing the position of dialect variants from Quanzhou and Zhangzhou. Up to today, it is still being regarded as the representative Standard Hokkien dialect. From mid 19th century till the end of World War II, western diplomats usually learned Amoy Hokkien as the preferred dialect if they were to communicate with the Hokkien-speaking populace in China or South-East Asia. In the 1940s and 1950s, Taiwan also held Amoy Hokkien as its standard and tended to incline itself towards Amoy dialect.

The Hokkien language is an important language worldwide. It is vital to understand the general nature and specific idiosyncrasies of Hokkien. For over 10 years Global Interpreting has provided outstanding Hokkien translators, over the phone, face to face and conference interpreters nation and worldwide.