This week I wanted to touch on the minority languages of Hong Kong, since the convo around language in HK always tends to be very Cantonese-centric

I've picked 5 spoken languages (Weitou, HK Hakka, Hoklo, Tanka, and Tingkok/TPC) and 1 signed language (HKSL) to focus on

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感謝棟篤笑 #阿V 講解學廣東話嘅難處同策略

Hong Kong stand-up comedian Vivek Mabubani explains why learning Cantonese is difficult for Chinese-as-an-additional-language students, and the "oracy-over-literacy" strategy of Hambaanglaang.

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One male contributor recorded 7000 sentences for the Cantonese Common Voice dataset. I appreciate his effort but we do need more voices from other contributors. Forward this to any Cantonese-speaking friends who may want to help. commonvoice.mozilla.org/yue/
#幫手CLS #Channel需要女聲

原來我曾經無無聊聊夜麻麻睇過一啲關於19世紀粵語嘅處置句paper有一日係會幫到我嘅 💀💀💀 my canto trivia knowledge saved me

反而係俗語/諺語嗰part完全肥咗 😭

one of the v few taishanese/hoisanwa resources for english speakers !!!! get your preorders in

i've been staring at this chart showing the mapping of initials and finals between HK Cantonese and Toisanese and getting the urge to just try to learn the language

look at those clean mappings! i already have some of this internalized it's great

resurfacing on twitter to note down the best possessive phrase ive heard in a while

"the boy who i just hooked up with's apartment" 🤌🤌 THE FLAVOUR

The trial version of the #Taiwan #Hakka Corpus is now available online. Launched by HAC in 2017, the corpus has collected more than 6-million-word Hakka language material, in written or spoken form. Read more: bit.ly/3eSnfJg and check out: corpus.hakka.gov.tw.

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仲要加咗漢字 display 功能 ...
chaaklau.github.io/zidou/

Can we make a thread with all (free) online resources where you can look up etymologies for different languages? 🤗

@ canto speakers how do we say "to shrug" LMAO i am having a lexical gap moment and im like?? how do we say 聳肩 ??

縮?? 戚? help

🎉 Happy New Year! 🥳

Did you know? All three basic Mandarin pronouns have irregular historical developments.

More interesting: All three give the appearance of being frozen in time — preserving ancient pronunciations.

Let’s check it out!

the chokehold that standard written chinese has on canto music is so upsetting lmao ;;;; mainstream vernacular canto music that isn't rap/rock WHEN

like on one hand there is the obvious literary layer that excludes the colloquial layer and gives off that vibe of Elevated Art ,,,but it's literally mainstream pop who cares JFLKAJDSFKLA

hokkien music can do it, why can't we

no bc also like the dissonance for canto diaspora is WILD bc so many ppl i know are like ,,,,, yes that is canto music but i do not understand this song at all LMAO or like ,,, i need to look at the lyrics to understand

what does that say about some of our music lmao

Looking for an online Cantonese dictionary? Here’s one.
(powered by @jyutdin_wordshk)

so im working in korea and the vp at my school always tries to talk to me in mandarin bc he heard ethnically chinese and ran with it but i feel compelled to respond in korean bc i dont actually know how much mandarin he understands and also mando is not my language and-

its sweet that he is trying to connect with me tho so there's that

i remember the first day i met him, my coteacher introduced me to him, and he immediately went ni hao and i hesitated bc wrong language, and he turns to her and says "ah he was born abroad so he doesn't speak chinese eh"

REJAKWFJLKWEJFLKJ PURE PAIN