Cantonese, a southern Chinese dialect with a long history but an uncertain future in China, is being championed around the world in some surprising ways and some unlikely places. At Palacky University in Olomouc, a city in the Czech Republic, Chinese-born, associate professor Joanna Ut-Seong Sio enjoys describing to her students what it’s like to live in Hong Kong, and.
The latest 2021 census data released on Wednesday shows that 31 per cent of British Columbians are native speakers of languages that are not Indigenous, English or French, a four per cent increase from five years ago.
Hong Kong language and culture experts say they worry about the future of Cantonese and the impact Mandarin will have on the next generation's ability to speak and write in Hong Kong's own language.