A Hong Kong lawyer says it’s likely that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) will ban the Cantonese language in the near future, given one education official’s negative comments about the language and Beijing’s efforts to stamp out native tongues in other regions.
Speaking at a book launch event in Toronto on Nov. 25, Joy Luk, the first and only visually impaired lawyer in Hong Kong, said Beijing intends to “destroy the language and culture” of Hong Kong the way it did to the Tibetans, Uyghurs, and South Mongolians.
