IN FULL: The Hong Kong cultural heritage list

By it's nature, "intangible cultural heritage" can be a bit tricky to tally. But that's exactly what Hong Kong has done over the past seven years, compiling a list of 480 items that best represent the city and its people. With the inclusion of such diverse entries as egg tarts, the annual Hind Diwali festival and Bangladesh's International Mother Language Day, the inventory celebrates an array of Hong Kong's communities Read more here.

Oral Traditions and Expressions

Besides Cantonese, there is a diversity of languages which point to the city's "rich and colourful" history in trade and migration, the Heritage Museum says. New Territories settlers with family histories spanning as far back as 900 years will also see legends and stories about their ancestors protected.

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1 Hakka Dialect

2 Wai Tau Dialect

3 Cantonese

4 Four-character idiomatic expressions

5 Fishermen’s Dialect

6 Fujian Dialect

7 Fujian's Hokkien (Minnan) Dialect