Aotearoa New Zealand Chinese language week

Here are some recordings of chinese dialects spoken in Aotearoa NZ

https://www.tepapa.govt.nz/discover-collections/read-watch-play/chinese-languages-aotearoa [1]

Includes @jackyan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKKpi_B1kh8

and someone speaking Penang Hokkien, the dialect I speak [4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoTp8P66Jfw

According to the 2023 Census 5.6% identify as Chinese, the fourth largest group https://www.stats.govt.nz/news/census-results-reflect-aotearoa-new-zealands-diversity/ [2]

This figure shows common languages spoken (also from 2023 Census) https://figure.nz/chart/wEZovDx96Qdumctk Mandarin, Cantonese and Chinese not further defined are in the graph

Chinese in New Zealand - Te Ara [3] https://teara.govt.nz/en/chinese

and Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_New_Zealanders

[1] Te Papa Tongarewa Museum of New Zealand
[2] Note some may identify with more than one race or ethnicity.
[3] Te Ara – The Encyclopedia of New Zealand
[4] Spoken only and I don't read or write the language.

#Aotearoa #NewZealand #NZ #NZCLW #ChineseNewZealand

You can’t get around the CBD of #Guangzhou speaking #Cantonese now. This is literally the origin of the Cantonese language. There is a building called the Canton Tower there.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7f-lIA30Fc #NZCLW

This is the sort of language suppression that is going on in China:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epuS5KTzXas

and why we cannot have linguistic colonialism exported to our shores. Unfortunately, this is what Chinese Language Week here has purported to do—right down to rude remarks about non-Mandarin languages from Raymond Huo, the former Labour MP who was one of its instigators.
Let’s celebrate all Chinese languages during #NZCLW.

How different are the Chinese languages? Here’s a fun segment from the ABC (Australia) as an example. There are at least 300 languages in China from very different roots, divisible into thousands if not myriads of dialects.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mM-r2OLai68 #NZCLW #language