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Cantonese ( traditional Chinese: 廣東話; simplified Chinese: 广东话; Jyutping: gwong2 dung1 waa2; Cantonese Yale: Gwóngdùng wá) is a language within the Chinese (Sinitic) branch of the Sino-Tibetan languages originating from the city of Guangzhou (historically known as Canton) and its surrounding Pearl River Delta.
- Hong Kong Cantonese
Hong Kong Cantonese is a dialect of the Cantonese language...
- Yue Chinese
It is the oral language of instruction in Chinese schools in...
- List of English Words of Cantonese Origin
Cantonese 速速: chuk 1 chuk 1: lit. 'hurry', 'urgent'...
- Varieties of Chinese
History. At the end of the 2nd millennium BC, a form of...
- Cantonese Grammar
Cantonese is an analytic language in which the arrangement...
- Written Cantonese
Written Cantonese is the most complete written form of a...
- Cantonese language
Cantonese is spoken by people in Southern China, Hong Kong,...
- Cantonese phonology
Cantonese uses about 1,760 syllables to cover pronunciations...
- Cantonese people
The pronunciation and vocabulary of Cantonese has preserved...
- Hong Kong Cantonese
- Written Cantonese
- Special Cantonese Characters
- Romanization Systems For Cantonese
- Videos in Cantonese
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- Sinitic (Chinese) Languages
- Semanto-Phonetic Writing Systems
Cantonese has appeared in writing since the 17th century. It is used mainly in personal correspondence, diaries, comics, poetry, advertising, popular newspapers, magazines and to some extent in literature. There are two standard ways of written Cantonese: a formal version and a colloquial version. The formal version is quite different from spoken C...
A selection of characters and words used in colloquial written Cantonese, with Yale romanization, their equivalents in Standard Written Chinese with Cantonese and Mandarin pronunciation, and English translations.
Since the early 19th century various different systems for writing Cantonese with the Latin alphabet have been used. The first ones were devised by protestant missionaries such as Robert Morrison, who publised a Vocabulary of the Canton Dialectin 1828 using his own unsystematic romanization system. The romanization system used in Chinese Chrestomat...
Information about Cantonese | Phrases | Numbers | Family words | Time expressions | Tower of Babel | Cantonese courses on: Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk[affilate links]
Information about Cantonese https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantonese https://cantolounge.com/complete-guide-learn-cantonese/ https://www.ethnologue.com/language/yue http://aboutworldlanguages.com/cantonese Online Cantonese lessons http://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/ http://cantonese.ca http://popupcantonese.com http://polymath.org/cantonese.php http:/...
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Cantonese, a major Sinitic language originating in Guangzhou, is the lingua franca in Guangdong, Guangxi, Hong Kong, and Macau. Cantonese has the most well-developed written form of all Chinese languages apart from Mandarin and Classical Chinese.
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