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Cantonese : since the 19th century

Title

Cantonese : since the 19th century / Hung-nin Samuel Cheung.

Author

Cheung, Hung-nin Samuel, 1946-

Publication

[Hong Kong] : Chinese University of Hong Kong Press, [2023]
©2023

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Description

xix, 361 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

One of the most spoken dialects in China, Southeast Asia, and globally, Cantonese was nevertheless deemed a local dialect enjoying little prestige among the intellectuals. Not much was recorded in official documents or gazetteers about the early history of Hong Kong. The Cantonese language and its origin remained much of a mystery until the mid-20th century when scholars started to accord it with increasing attention. Thanks to dedicated efforts of early missionaries, pedagogues, and linguists, we can now trace back the evolution of modern Cantonese since the 19th century-- how differences in sounds, words, and grammar distinguish the old from contemporary speech today. In this book, Hung-nin Samuel Cheung, an acclaimed scholar on the study of Cantonese, offers profound insights to various firsthand century-old materials including language manuals, Bible translations, and maps of Hong Kong, with findings that will be useful for ongoing efforts to study the development of the Cantonese language that has gone through many rounds of incredible and, at times, dramatic changes during the last two hundred years.

Alternative Title

Cantonese : since the nineteenth century
Since the 19th century

Subject

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN

9882372538
9789882372535

LCCN

99995302264

OCLC

on1288194783
1288194783
SCSB-14713185

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries