Ewen Lee /ˈju.wɪn/

phonology. language documentation/revitalization. university of toronto. talks way too much about cantonese. 🇨🇦🇭🇰🏳️‍🌈 (he/him)

[Ewen Lee /ˈju.wɪn/ @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 languages (Weitou, HK Hakka, Hoklo, Tanka, and Tingkok/TPC) and 1 signed language (HKSL) to focus on

🖐️☝️

[Ewen Lee /ˈju.wɪn/ @ewen201]

@StrawhatLeiffy honoured to be part of the cause 🤠

[Chaakming Lau @chaakming]

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.

https://t.co/g2Ij2Cd9as

[Chaakming Lau @chaakming]

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. https://t.co/tkTn9e1kP4
#幫手CLS #Channel需要女聲

[Ewen Lee /ˈju.wɪn/ @ewen201]

@seoulnessie @bybryanpietsch FR 😭😭😭 this is bonkers

[Ewen Lee /ˈju.wɪn/ @ewen201]

@seoulnessie @bybryanpietsch the message in chinese is just a shorter translation of the first english paragraph

[Ewen Lee /ˈju.wɪn/ @ewen201]

@Ah_Gan @chaakming im a heritage speaker and i have [ɕ] before /y/! picked it up from my boomer parents, but yea it's atypical among younger HK speakers

[Ewen Lee /ˈju.wɪn/ @ewen201]

@LowRisingTone @chaakming generation and location also play an important role !! when im talking about stereotypical 港女 speech, im referring to a specific subset of young HK female speech, so older HK women won't have this allophone. my mom (mid 50s, from HK) has [tɕ] but not [tʃ]

[Ewen Lee /ˈju.wɪn/ @ewen201]

@colaceirios v common in hk to hear tɕ/tʃ before the vowels yu/oe/u/eo/ou/o

some older speakers will do tɕ before any front vowel, younger gz speakers tend to do [ts] for everything, and some Hoa canto speakers do [tɕ~c] for any instance of <z>

[Ewen Lee /ˈju.wɪn/ @ewen201]

@chaakming i think gender and gender identity might also play a role? this is subjective ofc, but i associate a really strong tʃ with stereotypical 港女 speech, so the appearance of the allophones might also depend on the interlocutor/the social environment/etc

[Ewen Lee /ˈju.wɪn/ @ewen201]

@chaakming THISSSS my tʃʰ is much more prominent in spontaneous speech, but in careful speech, or in high register/customer service situations, i immediately switch to tɕʰ

there's something to investigate there with respect to the sociolinguistics of <c> and <z> 👁️

[Ewen Lee /ˈju.wɪn/ @ewen201]

@fluentinaka @colaceirios just a small note that the first two screenshots are talking about a historical distinction that was lexical and has since merged! the one in question is touched on in the last screenshot tho, and it seems to have a lot to do with vowel rounding

[Ewen Lee /ˈju.wɪn/ @ewen201]

@happymarcoss i broke the streak lo siento

[Ewen Lee /ˈju.wɪn/ @ewen201]

@Cyfiero @taichungpui i feel like it'd be 1 or 2! i also just love 2 conceptually

[Ewen Lee /ˈju.wɪn/ @ewen201]

反而係俗語/諺語嗰part完全肥咗 😭

[Ewen Lee /ˈju.wɪn/ @ewen201]

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

[gan6nei4 靳尼 @gan6nei4]

你有幾了解廣東話呢？
乜範疇都有考，真心高質！
多謝 @chaakming 同佢啲friend子🥰

https://t.co/ejWqaIlyDi

[Ewen Lee /ˈju.wɪn/ @ewen201]

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

[InspirLang @InspirLang]

"Learn to Speak Taishanese 1: A Beginner's Guide to Mastering Conversational Taishanese Chinese," is available for pre-ordering now!

https://t.co/MKlSoBz9xk

#newbook #NewBooks #newbookalert #newbooksmell #newbookreleased #newbooktoread #newbooksareawesome #newbookrelease

[Manish @ManishEarth]

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

[Ewen Lee /ˈju.wɪn/ @ewen201]

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

[Hakka Affairs Council @HakkaAffairs]

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: https://t.co/yGPmytvpUf and check out: https://t.co/O9z3DV8lzL.

[Ewen Lee /ˈju.wɪn/ @ewen201]

@jailpee like you're not brutally honest you're just brutal 😭😭😭