Mr. Wu also assured us that we would feel very much at home in Betong because about 40 % of the people there are ethnic Chinese, at least half of whose ancestors came from Fujian. In the Chinese community there, pretty much everybody can speak both Hokkien (i.e., the Southern Fujianese dialect spoken in Taiwan) and Mandarin.
鄔先生也特地交代我們去勿洞市時毋庸擔心，因它對大馬華人來說並沒有語言溝通上的困擾，華人人口佔勿洞總人口比例的四成，他們有半數以上為福建人，一部份為其他籍貫的華人，因此閩南語、華語在勿洞的華人社會裡普遍流行。