Why #Cantonese is Closer to Ancient Chinese than #Mandarin - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTpLcTigixs nicely done (v Language Log) #linguistics

Watching "Interior Chinatown", it's a series about a Chinese waiter who gets involved in a police case. It's a comedy. I am enjoying it there are lots of inside (Cantonese diaspora) jokes and not too much stereotyping - inevitable in these types of shows. Worth a watch if you're bored but don't take it too seriously #Chinese #Cantonese

I am a biracial. Now I am staying in Taiwan. I started to play the piano since I was 4 and listening to music can makes me free relax. And music just like architecture is solidification of music, it also can say that music is a kind of space

Instagram: ami_hktpgirl02

#profile
#piano #frsm
#violin #dipabrsm
#guitar #grade8
#english #ielts9
#japanese #n1
#korean #topik5
#spoken #spanish #french #taiwanese
#german #mandarin #cantonese

Do I have anyone here who reads #Chinese and can help me with a story?...

Edit: Apparently the text I am looking at is #Cantonese (that helps)

Edit 2: Or #Japanese. I found a Japanese source too. :D

@bookstodon #bookstodon

This book I'm reading has a Punjabi-#Malaysian character living in #KL who can understand #Cantonese.

Seems unbelievable, but perhaps the only country I would believe such a person could exist in is #Malaysia.

My mother is confusing Cantonese people in San Gabriel valley by asking them (in Cantonese) where she can find ‘loh ti’ (Malay for bread, roti, said in a Cantonese way)

I had to poke her a couple of times before she remembered to use another word in Cantonese

Week 5, 2025: Top album languages found on @wikidata right now.

Cantonese overtakes Mandarin at the bottom of the chart.

For the complete list, see https://w.wiki/6TNS

#Wikidata #ExMusica @querywikidata

 
我正在尋找時間旅行者 #Catonese

I am watching for the Time Travelers.

❛❛ On the Night of the Total Lunar Eclipse,
Time Travelers descend in their space-time ships. ❜❜

— For more images in this series, click on: #KronoWatch

Week 50, 2024: What @wikidata@wikis.world album languages grew the most this week?

Something is going on, and it's not the rent!
C-pop takes over the chart, with Cantonese ultimately bringing home the crown.

#Wikidata #ExMusica @wikidata@a.gup.pe

Week 50, 2024: Top album languages found on @wikidata right now.

In the first major upset in a long time, Cantonese soars to replace Czech at the bottom of the chart.

For the complete list, see https://w.wiki/6TNS

#Wikidata #ExMusica @querywikidata

The Mozilla #CommonVoice #dataset v20 was released yesterday - the largest open #speech dataset in the world. My #dataviz, linked below, shows a continuation of patterns seen for some years now:

There's more data collected for #Catalan (ca) than for #English (en) - testament to the independence and language reclamation efforts in Catalunya. Language and cultural transmission are deeply intertwined.

Some of the newer #languages to Common Voice, like #Ligurian / #Genoese (lij) have contributions from mostly older speakers, which is unusual in comparison to the rest of the dataset. This may reflect the population that currently speak those languages - as many regional languages in Italy are in rapid decline.

Some languages such as Eastern Mari / Meadow Mari (mhr) - a #Uralic language spoken in the Mari-El Republic within Russia - have samples from predominantly female-identifying speakers, again contrasting to the rest of the dataset. Other languages here include #Cantonese (yue), #Georgian (ka), and #Kalenjin (kln).

A key part in the preparation of the Common Voice dataset is the validation of utterances to assure they match their written transcription - which requires at least two validations by separate speakers. Some newer languages to Common Voice, such as Erzya (myv) and Moksha (mdf), both Uralic languages, have nearly 100% validation.

What are your interpretations of the dataset?

https://observablehq.com/@kathyreid/mozilla-common-voice-v20-dataset-metadata-coverage

Excellent news. I recently completed a six month online program with a Taiwanese language teacher in Kaohsiung. It was very good for me as I already read Chinese characters and speak Taiwanese as a heritage speaker. I constantly despaired that it would seem so insurmountable for someone to pick it up from scratch. Gotta check out the programs at Berkeley, close to home

#Languages #Chinese #Cantonese #Taiwanese #Hokkien

https://mstdn.social/@davidonformosa/113537141930967459

UC Berkeley is expanding its teaching of Chinese languages with more courses in Cantonese and Taiwanese

https://inspire.berkeley.edu/o/new-fund-helps-east-asian-languages-and-cultures-reflect-californias-linguistic-diversity/

love stuff like this
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/cantonese-school-reopens-vancouver-1.7387951

New Cantonese acoustic models are available!

trained using the Common Voice 19 Cantonese subset and Chinese (Hong Kong) subset, with 3400 speakers.

different phone set/dictionary options
#MFA #phonetics #Cantonese #linguistics

https://github.com/chenchenzi/HKCantonese_models

格林童話 #粵文 版 Grimms' Fairy Tales in #Cantonese
https://www.instagram.com/p/DCABiVDIVMr/?igsh=emJzNWhsZHcwaDE3

A great podcast to understand why various Chinese dialects (or rather, languages), came to be spoken in Malaysia.

Ps: My ancestors prob came during the wave of migration after the collapse of the Ming dynasty. This is probably the origins of the northern Peranakans.

https://youtu.be/MkGe5Um8pGc?si=uWUFNRIFv0CgXV2m

Right now, #Cantonese Love Songs and Naamyum sound in Hong Kong https://buff.ly/3Y2tiAZ #wch

In 20 minutes, #Cantonese Love Songs and Naamyum sound in Hong Kong https://buff.ly/3Y2tiAZ #wch