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While from a different language family to Sino-Tibetan, Vietnamese forms part of a Sprachbund across most of mainland Southeast Asia and into neighbouring parts of southern China (including Cantonese), which has influenced features of both languages: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mainland_Southeast_Asia_linguistic_areaOnly vaguely related question: I've noticed Youtube auto-subtitles often mix up Cantonese with Vietnamese, and I've heard anecdotally that the two sound similar to speakers of them, yet linguistically they're supposed to be from completely different language families; how did that happen? Is it just like how Portuguese has an incongruous Slavic 'sound' to it, or is it genuinely caused by exchange due to them being geographically close and in contact?
Very interesting, thanks. I think I misunderstood the term Sprachbund when I've seen it before, I was interpreting it as more 'related semi-intelligble languages' like the Slavic languages of Eastern Europe, rather than 'not necessarily related languages influenced by the same geographic area'.While from a different language family to Sino-Tibetan, Vietnamese forms part of a Sprachbund across most of mainland Southeast Asia and into neighbouring parts of southern China (including Cantonese), which has influenced features of both languages: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mainland_Southeast_Asia_linguistic_area
There's quite a few Sprachbunds around the place, and they very much can involve unrelated languages - that's more or less the point. The earliest studied one was in the Balkan Peninsula, where Romanian shares many features with South Slavic languages despite being unrelated (well, not more closely related than Proto-Indo-European). Mainland Indigenous Australian languages form a Sprachbund too, probably from being in northern Australia when (for some reason or other) the Pama-Nyungan languages spread from northern Australia across the rest of the continent (though not Tasmania).Very interesting, thanks. I think I misunderstood the term Sprachbund when I've seen it before, I was interpreting it as more 'related semi-intelligble languages' like the Slavic languages of Eastern Europe, rather than 'not necessarily related languages influenced by the same geographic area'.
Quite. I haven't quite decided yet how Hong Kong will turn out by the time WIAF is wrapped up in the post-WW2 years, but it is likely to be a much less vibrant place than OTL without the influx of people and capital that followed the mainland's fall to the Communists.It seems hard to imagine a Hong Kong without skyscrapers, but the cruel reality is that the biggest reason Hong Kong enjoyed this degree of development was because China couldn’t until relatively recently. When events closed the border and drove foreign business out of China, Hong Kong became the next best place to make your home.
The most I’ve ever pondered to do with Hong Kong was the Dutch taking Macau through reasons and therefore Hong Kong never exists and Southern China gains a small pocket of Dutch culture etc.
But other than that most of my ponderings on Hong Kong have been more recent and limited in scope which kind of shows why this article should exist in the first place.
I just read it. Great article, @Bonniecanuck. BTW, is it true that most Hong Kongers are descended from post-World War II Han Chinese refugees?Discuss this article by @Bonniecanuck here
I just read it. Great article, @Bonniecanuck. BTW, is it true that most Hong Kongers are descended from post-World War II Han Chinese refugees?