For most of us who grew up in the 1990s, we'd know (and probably at one point really loved) the Teletubbies.

Yep, those four weirdly cute aliens with differently-shaped antennae, TV screens on their tummies and their inability to pronounce the word "Hello".

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Come on, guys. It's been years.

Anyway, what you might not have realised is that the gibberish spoken by the smallest one, Po, is actually not gibberish.

Well, not entirely anyway.

It turns out to be a dialect we're actually pretty familiar with —

Cantonese.

Don't believe us?

This video shared by local radio station Kiss92 shows proof:

Surprise! Betcha didn't see that one coming.

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By the way, her signature phrase "fai-di fai-di, fai-di fai-di" for "Faster, faster!" is also captured in audio phrases in those creepy talking Teletubby plushies:

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How's that for a revelation.

Check out the original actress behind Po speaking her Cantonese lines in this video — it's pretty mindblowing:

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And since you're here, take a walk down memory lane with the Teletubbies theme song:

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Bonus:

Top image: Screenshot from video

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