Cantonese
Language
Cantonese
dialects, Cantonese alphabet, Cantonese orthography,
Cantonese language sources
Cantonese
language
Cantonese: One of the main languages used in
Number
of Cantonese Speakers: 64 million.
Cantonese Speakers: 46 million in China, 5 million in Hong
Kong, and over 2 million in Malaysia, Vietnam, Macao,
Singapore, and Indonesia.
Language Classification: Sino-Tibetan language. Close to Min
and Hakka languages.
Cantonese Dialects: Four major dialects. Cantonese is also
called as Yue and
Cantonese Alphabet: In pictographic characters. Cantonese Orthography: Big difference between written and spoken Cantonese languages. |
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Cantonese Standardization Efforts: In late 20th century.
Unique
Features of Cantonese: Name comes from the city of
Cantonese
Language Association promotes study and research in
Cantonese language. For more linguistic affiliation,
language variation, orthography, linguistic sketch, and
history of Cantonese language
UCLA Language Materials
Project has a good linguistics and interlingual information
on Cantonese.
Cantonese
language is included in the
Speech Assessment Methods
Phonetic Alphabet (SAMPA) which is a computer-readable
phonetic script using 7-bit printable ASCII characters based
on the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA).
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