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  2. www.britannica.com › place › Southeast-AsiaSoutheast Asia - Languages, Dialects, Ethnicities | Britannica

    Jul 2, 2024 · Perhaps most significant are the variety of dialects spoken by the Chinese communities in many Southeast Asian countries. The most commonly used are Cantonese, Hokkien, Hakka, and Teochew, reflecting the southern Chinese coastal origins of many of the immigrants.

  3. link.springer.com › chapter › 10Origins of Ethnolinguistic Identity in Southeast Asia - Springer

    Dec 9, 2017 · 1 Introduction. The ethnolinguistic composition of the SE Asian region is unique in global terms, consisting of five major phyla and of isolates, confined to offshore islands. These phyla are highly coherent, and appear to be of a relatively recent origin compared with other continents.

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  5. www.fluentu.com › blog › chineseThe 7 Major Chinese Dialects and How They Came to Be - FluentU

    • Mandarin Chinese. Where it’s spoken: China, Taiwan. Number of speakers: ∼1.1 billion. Mandarin, also known as Putonghua, is the official language of China.
    • Cantonese Chinese. Where it’s spoken: China’s Guangdong province, Guangzhou, Hong Kong, Macau. Number of speakers: ∼73 million. Though not quite second in terms of speakers, Cantonese is the second most widely spread dialect spoken in China.
    • Wu Chinese (Shanghainese) Where it’s spoken: China’s Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, Shanghai. Number of speakers: ∼80 million. Used primarily in Shanghai, the Wu Chinese dialect is mostly known as Shanghainese.
    • Hakka Chinese. Where it’s spoken: China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau. Number of speakers: ∼80 million. The Hakka Chinese dialect is spoken throughout Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau and Southern China.

  6. www.cambridge.org › core › booksEnglish in Southeast Asia (Chapter 12) - The Cambridge ...

    Jun 27, 2024 · While the historical emergence and present-day settings of English in Southeast Asia are highly varied, it is possible, nevertheless, to identify a number of key themes that can provide important insights into the changing status and properties of English in this region.

  7. lel.ed.ac.uk › ~jkirby › docsTone and phonation in Southeast Asian languages

    One such example is the Kuai dialect of Suai, a Mon-Khmer language of Thailand, where perceptual evidence suggests the historical register distinction is being restructured primarily as a contrast between high and low pitch (Abramson & Nye 2004).

  8. www.cambridge.org › core › booksSoutheast Asian Tone in Areal Perspective (Chapter 26) - The ...

    Jun 27, 2024 · Genetic versus contact relationship: Prosodic diffusability in South-East Asian languages. In Aikhenvald , Alexandra Y. and Dixon , Robert M. W. (eds), Areal Diffusion and Genetic Inheritance: Problems in Comparative Linguistics , pp. 291 – 327 .

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  10. compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com › doi › 10Tone and Phonation in Southeast Asian Languages - Brunelle ...

    Apr 3, 2016 · Southeast Asia is often considered a quintessential Sprachbund where languages from five different language phyla have been converging typologically for millennia. One of the common features shared by many languages of the area is tone: several major national languages of the region have large tone inventories and complex tone contours.