The Cantonese podcast for fans of linguistics, language lovers, and Cantonese learners. This episode starts with the diglossia in Hong Kong (Cantonese and Mandarin) and discusses and compares the situations with Swiss German, Arabic, Classical Chinese, etc.

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以：歡迎大家返到嚟《絮言．狂想》第十五集，我係以色列。

苗：我係三苗。

靳：我係靳尼啊。

以：係喇，今日呢，我哋好興奮，因為今日係我哋第一次有由patron嚟到選出嘅題目啊，好嘢！

靳：好嘢！

苗：徇眾要求啊。

以：就係徇眾要求嚟講呢一個「雙層語言」啦，即係diglossia啦，就唔係……

靳：係咪即係好似啲牛肉漢堡噉樣啊？雙層巨……

以：雙層芝士孖堡啊？好似我係嗌開呢個。

靳：雙層芝士漢堡。

苗：雙層牛肉diglossia。

靳：雙層……要有牛肉。

以：雙層牛肉diglossia，係嘞。

靳：噉即係喺印度冇㗎喎，噉樣如果係噉。

苗：噉咪雞肉囉。

以：印度有冇……印度有冇呢？我哋陣間講啦。

靳：我哋陣間可以講下。

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The Cantonese podcast for fans of linguistics, language lovers, and Cantonese learners. This conlang episode starts with Persian Lessons and discusses some constructed languages, such as artlang (from Star Trek, Lord of the Rings, Game of Thrones), auxlang (Esperanto, Interslavic), among others.

Show notes and links available on the Cantonese page. Transcript below.

This podcast is also available on YouTube. Don’t forget to subscribe!

以：所以……我唔知啊，唔知所以乜嘢啊，我冇所以喇。

靳：所以就冇所以喇。

苗：然後就冇然後？

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以：大家好啊，歡迎返到嚟《絮言．狂想》第十四集，我係以色列。

苗：我係三苗。

靳：我係靳尼啊。

以：係啦，今次終於用返廣東話嚟自介喇。

靳：嘩，係啊。

以：係，最近大家點樣啊？有咩好做啊，呢排？

靳：吓？呢排香港戲院就開返啦，噉其實近排都想揾啲戲嚟睇噉樣嘅。唔知大家有冇啲咩好介紹呢。

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