The Cantonese podcast for fans of linguistics, language lovers, and Cantonese learners. This episode discusses the differences between a dialect, a language, and a topolect in European and Sinitic language families, with examples from Scandinavia (Swedish/Norwegian/Danish), BCMS (Bosnian/Croatian/Montenegrin/Serbian) and Sinitic (Taiwanese/Hokkien; Cantonese/Hongkongese).
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以:又係反映到語言學同埋即係正常人……即係或者一般大眾嘅分別囉,個落差。因為我哋……
苗:你係咪話語言學家唔係正常人?
以:OK,講過,OK。唔講過喇,就入……cut入去,cut入去!
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