English-Cantonese and Hokkien-Malay phrasebooks

Ryan of Singapore sent me photographs of a section from a Chinese almanac that amounts to a ten-page English phrasebook phonetically annotated in Cantonese. Here are two of the pages (as usual, click to embiggen): The phrasebook, from the current edition of the Guǎngjīng táng 廣經堂 almanac, is entitled Huá-Yīng tōng yǔ 華英通語. Here are […]