Institute of Language in Education Scheme of Cantonese romanization (Chinese: 教院式拼音方案) or the ILE scheme, commonly known simply as the romanization used by...
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Réunion (redirect from Île Bourbon)
Rényon; known as Île Bourbon before 1848) is an island in the Indian Ocean that is an overseas department and region of France. Part of the Mascarene Islands...
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the 1928 cancellation of the American ban on the export of commercial airplanes, Kwangchow Wan was also used as a stop for Cantonese smugglers transporting...
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Prince Edward Island (redirect from Ile St. Jean)
(PEI; French: Île-du-Prince-Édouard; Scottish Gaelic: Eilean a' Phrionnsa; colloquially known as the Island) is an island province of Canada. While it...
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Chow mein (category Cantonese cuisine)
traditional Chinese: 炒麵; pinyin: Chǎomiàn). Its pronunciation comes from the Cantonese pronunciation "chaomin"; the term first appeared in English (US) in 1906...
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Soy sauce (redirect from History of soy sauce)
kicap cair is the Malaysian equivalent of kecap asin. Soy sauce, known in Peru as sillao from the Cantonese name of the item, is an important ingredient...
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early influx of Chinese migrants into Mauritius, mostly from Fujian, Cantonese and Hakka migrants from Southern China (Guangdong) settled on the island...
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Chinese diaspora in France (redirect from History of the Chinese diaspora in France)
television. Of the 2,000 to 3,000 Chinese who remained in France after World War I, most became factory workers and settled around the Île-de-France region...
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between Hakka and Cantonese became a common feature of the society. The Hakka-Cantonese tensions led to the resettlement of many Cantonese in Reunion Island...
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South Africans in France (category French people of South African descent)
France are South African expatriates in France or French people of South African descent. As of 2020, 5,925 South Africans were recorded as living in France...
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English exonyms (redirect from List of English exonyms)
question of romanization. Does the application of a romanization system turn an endonym into an exonym? In his GeoNames 2000 paper Do Romanization Systems...
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Tahiti (redirect from History of Tahiti)
(Society of Evangelical Missions of Paris). During the same period about a thousand Chinese, mainly Cantonese, were recruited at the request of a plantation...
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Tombeau Blue bay Mauritius Island Islets of Mauritius Agalega Islands Cargados Carajos Île Plate Île aux Cerfs Île de la Passe Rodrigues Round Island Tromelin...
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French language (category Languages of the Republic of the Congo)
likely survived into the sixth century in France despite considerable Romanization. Coexisting with Latin, Gaulish helped shape the Vulgar Latin dialects...
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Binondo (category Districts of Manila)
Santo, founder of the Congregation of the Religious of the Virgin Mary. Numerous theories on the origin of the name "Binondo", and that of "Tondo", its...
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porridge and sugar known as koko. For the southwestern Yoruba people (Ilé Yorùbá) one of the most common breakfasts is Ògì— a porridge made from corn, usually...
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Beijing (redirect from Capital of the People's Republic of China)
spelling Beijing is based on the government's official romanization (adopted in the 1980s) of the two characters as they are pronounced in Standard Mandarin...
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coalition of competing Cantonese pirate fleets of uncertain numbers into an alliance. By 1804, this coalition was a formidable force, and one of the most...
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Yuexiu, Guangzhou (category Wikipedia articles in need of updating from October 2024)
May 2003. Retrieved on 16 September 2016. "-Adresse: GoldArch Riverdale - Île d'Er Sha - GUANGZHOU/P.R.C " - Chinese address at the Wayback Machine (archive...
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Indonesian language (redirect from History of the Indonesian language)
system (named from the advisor of the system, Charles Adriaan van Ophuijsen) was the first standardization of romanized spelling. It was most influenced...
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Indonesian Arabic (category CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of November 2024)
(Arabic: العربية الاندونيسية, romanized: al-‘Arabiyya al-Indūnīsiyya, Indonesian: Bahasa Arab Indonesia) is a variety of Arabic spoken in Indonesia. It...
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Cheung Po Tsai (category Pages with Cantonese IPA)
Cheung Po Tsai (Chinese: 張保仔; born Cheung Po; 1783–1822) was a navy colonel of the Qing dynasty and a former pirate. "Cheung Po Tsai" literally means "Cheung...
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Wokou (category Military history of Korea)
Archive of the Indies, Philippines, file 29, bunch 3, number 62. Letter from Juan Bautista Román to the Viceroy of México, 25 June 1582 General Archive of the...
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with a protected designation of origin (PDO). African eggplant African pepper Bourbon vanilla — Île Bourbon, now the island of Réunion Canarian wrinkly potatoes...
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and means "lover of horses". Ma-i, a former name: From the Mandarin pronunciation Máyì of the Chinese characters 麻逸 used by Cantonese traders to spell...
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for the Cantonese Chinese pronunciation of 媽閣 (Maa5gok3), the name of temple of the sea goddess A-Ma,[citation needed] or A-Ma Gao (阿媽澳, "Bay of A-Ma")...
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beginner writers. Meanwhile, diacritics are not written in the current romanization of the Balinese language. Thus, both Bali and basa Bali are the standard...
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Medan Hokkien (category Languages of Indonesia)
Medan Hokkien is a local variety of Hokkien spoken amongst Chinese Indonesians in Medan, North Sumatra, Indonesia. It is the lingua franca in Medan as...
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Javanese language (redirect from History of the Javanese language)
sounds are transcribed as "th" and "dh" in the modern Roman script, but previously by the use of an underdot: "ṭ" and "ḍ". Javanese, like many other Austronesian...
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Saint-Denis, Réunion (redirect from History of Saint-Denis, Réunion)
(世昌堂), dedicated to Guandi and to the ancestral worship of the Chane (陈) family, one of the Cantonese families arrived in Réunion in the 1860s and 1870s as...
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