phonology. language documentation/revitalization. trinity college dublin. talks way too much about cantonese. 🇨🇦🇭🇰🏳️🌈 (he/him)
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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
🖐️☝️
Ewen Lee /ˈju.wɪn/ retweeted
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.
youtube.com/watch?v=LefHM6sI…
Ewen Lee /ˈju.wɪn/ retweeted
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
ALT Top Left: Logo for the Mozilla Common voice project. Centre: Drawings of 24 people in a comical style, of which 21 appear to be male and only 3 appear to be female. Caption says, in Cantonese, what is the picture saying.
one of the v few taishanese/hoisanwa resources for english speakers !!!! get your preorders in
"Learn to Speak Taishanese 1: A Beginner's Guide to Mastering Conversational Taishanese Chinese," is available for pre-ordering now!
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Ewen Lee /ˈju.wɪn/ retweeted
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
ALT a chart showing the mappings of syllable-initial phonemes between toisanese and cantonese, with toisanese on the left and cantonese on the right. most of the phonemes have clean mappings
ALT a chart showing the mappings of syllable-coda phonemes between toisanese and cantonese, with toisanese on the left and cantonese on the right. all of the phonemes have clean mappings
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
Ewen Lee /ˈju.wɪn/ retweeted
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/.
Ewen Lee /ˈju.wɪn/ retweeted
唔知邊個無聊人整咗個粵拼 Wordle
仲要加咗漢字 display 功能 ...
chaaklau.github.io/zidou/
Ewen Lee /ˈju.wɪn/ retweeted
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 ??
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🎉 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
Ewen Lee /ˈju.wɪn/ retweeted
Looking for an online Cantonese dictionary? Here’s one.
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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-