#nzclw — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #nzclw, aggregated by home.social.
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You can’t get around the CBD of #Guangzhou speaking #Cantonese now. This is literally the origin of the Cantonese language. There is a building called the Canton Tower there.
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This is the sort of language suppression that is going on in China:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epuS5KTzXas
and why we cannot have linguistic colonialism exported to our shores. Unfortunately, this is what Chinese Language Week here has purported to do—right down to rude remarks about non-Mandarin languages from Raymond Huo, the former Labour MP who was one of its instigators.
Let’s celebrate all Chinese languages during #NZCLW. -
How different are the Chinese languages? Here’s a fun segment from the ABC (Australia) as an example. There are at least 300 languages in China from very different roots, divisible into thousands if not myriads of dialects.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mM-r2OLai68 #NZCLW #language
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A reminder it is Chinese Languages’ Week—at least that is what I call it, since there is more than one Chinese language. Whether you lean toward the languages with mana and antiquity behind it, like millennia-old Cantonese, Hakka, Hokkien, Shanghainese, or Teochew, or one of the newer languages like Mandarin, this should be a week of celebration for diversity—and not a week of exclusion or hegemony. #NZCLW
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Eda Tang’s excellent piece today, for which I was interviewed: ‘New Zealand Chinese Language Week receives hundreds of thousands of dollars from Chinese government’. Or, the CCP tries to export language and cultural colonialism to Aotearoa.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/pou-tiaki/130064878/new-zealand-chinese-language-week-receives-hundreds-of-thousands-of-dollars-from-chinese-government #NZCLW
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Eda Tang on #Shanghainese and #Chongminghua, and the dangers of them fading out in the wake of language colonialism by the CCP. Hat tip to @Happyfishmedia. https://i.stuff.co.nz/pou-tiaki/132753222/carrying-a-language-that-no-one-speaks-shanghainese-speakers-in-aotearoa #NZCLW
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Fake #NZCLW account on Instagram. I wouldnʼt follow the real one, why would I follow the fake? Daft.
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In this #NZCLW let’s remember the actual surname of Leslie Charteris (creator of the Saint) was 殷. This was sometimes romanized under Wade–Giles to Yan but no relation to me. Leslie’s father used Yin. #TheSaint #LeslieCharteris #heritage #whakapapa
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Wonderful piece today from Eda Tang on the reo tūpuna of Chinese New Zealanders. #NZCLW
https://www.stuff.co.nz/pou-tiaki/132704755/six-ancestral-languages-of-chinese-new-zealanders