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Cantonese Language

Cantonese dialects, Cantonese alphabet, Cantonese orthography, Cantonese language sources

Cantonese language

Cantonese: One of the main languages used in China and Hong Kong. Mandarin is the official language of China.

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 Guangzhou.

Cantonese Alphabet: In pictographic characters.

Cantonese Orthography: Big difference between written and spoken Cantonese languages.

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Cantonese Language History: No good records for Cantonese.

Cantonese Standardization Efforts: In late 20th century.

Unique Features of Cantonese: Name comes from the city of Canton in China.

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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