Wong Shik Ling

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Wong Shik Ling (also known as S. L. Wong) (Chinese: 黃錫凌) (1908-1959) was a prominent scholar in Cantonese research. He is famous for his authoritative book, A Chinese Syllabary Pronounced According to the Dialect of Canton (《粵音韻彙》), which is influential in Cantonese research.

He graduated from Lingnan University, Guangzhou and then taught and researched Cantonese in the university. In 1941 he published his work, "A Chinese Syllabary Pronounced according to the Dialect of Canton". In 1949, he went to University of London and studied methods for linguistic research in the School of Oriental and African Studies. In 1950, he got hired as the lecturer teaching Cantonese in the University of Hong Kong and return to Hong Kong in 1951. At the same year, he became the first dean in the newly founded the Language School and had taught foreigners Cantonese for 9 year, till the end of his life. He wrote two textbooks on Cantonese for the university: Cantonese Conversation Grammar (1963) and Intermediate Cantonese Conversation (1967). Both were published by Government Printer of Hong Kong Government.