#Hakka

Rachel Chan

RachelChan42br

1/7 Seeing as nothing seems to make sense atm, I thought I'd throw my hat in the ring.My mother tongue is Hakka. It's an odd dialect, a cross between Mandarin

Gordon Wong😷👨‍💻🌹

DreamingGordon

The Hakka & other groups which have been living in established villages in HK before 1898, enjoy privileges including the right for "small house" 丁屋, and having their own representative

irene, the clown prince of xian le

crownsnbirds

heaps of ppl on my tl are watching the Sleuth of Ming Dynasty and i just wanted to flag something, as a han chinese person (1/?) (2) DISCLAIMER : i’m

Canton NPT

swpCantonNPT

#CantonNPT are pleased to announce a new initiative that has been set up to help us engage with the communities we serve. Here is PS Wong and Inspector Deacy explaining

鍾翔宇 Xiangyu

notXiangyu

1. As a result of settler colonialism, the English language has existed in North America for four centuries, roughly the same amount of time 閩南語 (Hokkien or Minnan/Southern Min Language),

陰陳俊傑 Carl Tan Chun Kiet

tanchunkiet

One interesting phenomenon re: romanization of Chinese names is sometimes it's very difficult to tell what the original character of the family name is. Especially with SE Asians who trace

MQ

mqmqqmqm

Hong Kong people are not indigenous. They are ethnic Han who were the bourgeois who migrated from the mainland to HK in 1949 to "flee communism." They colonized the land

陰陳俊傑 Carl Tan Chun Kiet

tanchunkiet

Worth noting that within each of those colors are many different mutually unintelligible languages. For example, someone who speaks only Longyan Min Nan cannot understand someone who speaks Hokkien or

免费香港無料台湾

ChineseBot2B

Imagine thinking a fucking fishing village where 90% of the land mass is on the "mainland" from a geographical standard point and *all* the residents are technically descendents of "mainlanders"

Joshua Yang

joshiunn

Visited the Wanchin Church, a 150-yo Spanish-Filipino style Basilica, & its surrounding Catholic areas in Pingtung over the weekend. The establishment of Catholicism in this area is interestingly intertwined w/

Ewen Lee

ewen201

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

Ta'o Collective

Tao_Collective

[[What do we call it? You should call it this!Another damn OOC thread about Hokkien because it's so hard to stay IC with these patay-headsTag: @tanchunkiet @catielila @joshiunn @Bad_Linguistics @brianhioe

ICE must be destroyed 🏴

Itmechr3

The funny part about this is that the single thing this is most true of is China, where in the like 1600's Europeans would be in like rural areas and

鍾翔宇 Xiangyu

notXiangyu

1. Indigenous Taiwanese people make up approx 2% of the population, and there are 16 officially recognized ethnic groups. This video is an Amis man speaking the Amis language, throwing

Anglo Confucius

YanHui89767430

Hong Xiuquan (洪秀全) 1 January 1814 – 1 June 1864, was a Hakka Chinese revolutionary who was the leader of the Taiping Rebellion against the Qing Dynasty. He established the

Will

willehelmwonka

I want to talk abt knowing a foreign language. A thread.1/ Whether western reporters’ lack of Chinese language skills hinders their ability to do the jobs always seems to be

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