In recognition of AAPI (Asian American and Pacific Islander) Heritage Month this May, we have curated a selection of resources below to help you discover, celebrate, and honor the vast contributions of Asian and Pacific Island American linguists, orators, singers, authors, and poets, whose words and work continue to remind us of the power of words.
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In most of the world’s languages, the word for tea is either “te” or “cha.” Which word is used depends on how tea was originally traded. Languages that imported tea from China by land, along the Silk Road, usually borrowed the word “cha” from mainland traders who spoke Sinitic languages like Mandarin or Cantonese. But when the Dutch started bringing tea to Europe, they were getting it via sea, and the Hokkien Chinese language spoken in their Fujian and Taiwan ports used the word “te” for tea.
