Question: Who brought the language Hokkien to the country between the country that hosted the tournament and the country where That Dam is from?

Of the 47 AFC member associations, a total of 44 teams entered the competition. The final tournament hosts Thailand decided to participate in qualification despite having automatically qualified for the final tournament. <SEP> There are many Hokkien speakers among overseas Chinese in Southeast Asia as well as in the United States. Many of the Hokkien dialects of this region are highly similar to Taiwanese and Amoy. Many ethnic Han Chinese emigrants to the region were Hoklo from southern Fujian, and brought the language to what is now Burma (Myanmar), Indonesia (the former Dutch East Indies) and present day Malaysia and Singapore (formerly Malaya and the British Straits Settlements). Hokkien is reportedly the native language of up to 98.5% of the Chinese Filipino in the Philippines, among which is known locally as Lan-nang or Lán-lâng-oē ("Our people’s language"). Hokkien speakers form the largest group of Chinese in Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia. [citation needed] <SEP> Many Laotians believe it is inhabited by a seven-headed nāga who tried to protect them from an invasion by the Siamese army in 1827. That Dam (Lao ທາດດຳ, meaning Black Stupa) is a large stupa located in Vientiane, Laos. <SEP> in the 1990s, marked by the liberalization of language development and mother tongue movement in taiwan, taiwanese hokkien had undergone a fast pace in its development. in 1993, taiwan became the first region in the world to implement the teaching of taiwanese hokkien in taiwanese schools. in 2001, the local taiwanese language program was further extended to all schools in taiwan, and taiwanese hokkien became one of the compulsory local taiwanese languages to be learned in schools. the mother tongue movement in taiwan even influenced xiamen (amoy) to the point that in 2010, xiamen also began to implement the teaching of hokkien dialect in its schools. in 2007, the ministry of education in taiwan also completed the standardization of chinese characters used for writing hokkien and developed tai-lo as the standard hokkien pronunciation and romanization guide. a number of universities in taiwan also offer hokkien degree courses for training hokkien-fluent talents to work for the hokkien media industry and education. taiwan also has its own hokkien literary and cultural circles whereby hokkien poets and writers compose poetry or literature in hokkien on a regular basis. <SEP> It lies along the Indian and Eurasian Plates, to the southeast of the Himalayas. To its west is the Bay of Bengal and to its south is the Andaman Sea. Myanmar (also known as Burma) is the northwestern-most country of mainland Southeast Asia, bordering China, India, Bangladesh, Thailand and Laos. It is strategically located near major Indian Ocean shipping lanes. <SEP> duncan lake is a man-made reservoir lake in the kootenay region of british columbia, canada, formed by duncan dam and about 45 km in length. it is fed by the duncan river, which forms part of the boundary between the selkirk mountains to the west and the purcell mountains to the east. below duncan dam is the head of kootenay lake.