pronunciation. Chinese grammar "Cantonese Final Particles". www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk. Retrieved 2023-04-12. "Cantonese Final Particles". www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk...
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Language portal Cantonese grammar Cantonese profanity Cantonese slang Cantonese nationalism Languages of China List of English words of Cantonese origin List...
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Standard Cantonese pronunciation originates from Guangzhou, also known as Canton, the capital of Guangdong Province. Hong Kong Cantonese is closely...
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poor to incomprehensible because of differences in idioms, grammar and usage. Modern Cantonese speakers have therefore developed new characters for words...
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Malaysian Cantonese (Chinese: 馬來西亞廣東話; Jyutping: Maa5loi4sai1aa3 Gwong2dung1waa2; Cantonese Yale: Máhlòihsāia Gwóngdūngwá) is a local variety of Cantonese spoken...
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words relating to Cantonese pronouns, see the Cantonese pronouns category of words in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Pronouns in Cantonese are less numerous...
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ISBN 962-201-970-6. Matthews, Stephen & Yip, Virginia (1994). Cantonese. A Comprehensive Grammar. Routledge. ISBN 0-415-08945-X. Ng Lam, Sim-yuk & Chik, Hon-man...
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(话; 話) literally means "narrative, story". Classical Chinese grammar Cantonese grammar China portal Several of the common prepositions can also be used...
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Yue Chinese (redirect from Cantonese dialects)
Yue (Cantonese pronunciation: [jyːt̚˨]) is a branch of the Sinitic languages primarily spoken in Southern China, particularly in the provinces of Guangdong...
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Cantonese culture, or Lingnan culture, refers to the regional Chinese culture of the region of Lingnan: twin provinces of Guangdong and Guangxi, the names...
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Cantonese Braille (Chinese: 粵語點字) is a braille script used to write Cantonese in Hong Kong and Macau. It is locally referred to as tim chi (點字, dim2zi6)...
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Cantonese Bopomofo, or Cantonese Phonetic Symbols (traditional Chinese: 粵語注音符號; simplified Chinese: 粤语注音符号; Jyutping: jyut6 jyu5 zyu3 jam1 fu4 hou6; Cantonese...
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Mandarin Chinese (section Grammar)
both grammar and vocabulary by local languages such as Cantonese, Hokkien, and Malay. Instances of code-switching with English, Hokkien, Cantonese, Malay...
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Chinese language (category Pages with Cantonese IPA)
17 November 2023. Matthews, Stephen; Yip, Virginia (1994). Cantonese: A Comprehensive Grammar. Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-08945-6. Miller, Roy Andrew (1967)...
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Singdarin Cantonese Hokkien Hakka Phonology Historical Old Old National Cantonese Hokkien Northern Wu Mandarin Literary and colloquial readings Grammar Numerals...
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taught to those taking up calligraphy as a co-curricular activity or Cantonese as an elective course at school. The majority of textbooks teaching Chinese...
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to either Hong Kong or Macau, which have different official languages (Cantonese, English and Portuguese) from the mainland. The spoken languages of nationalities...
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Classical Chinese (section Grammar and lexicon)
Guangdong and Fujian is either based on everyday speech, such as in Standard Cantonese, or is based on a special set of pronunciations borrowed from Classical...
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vocabulary and grammar. It is written in Traditional characters. It is not standardized and is associated with a phonology derived from Cantonese. Singaporean...
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Taishanese (section Relationship with Cantonese)
pinyin: Táishān huà; Jyutping: toi4 saan1 waa2), alternatively romanized in Cantonese as Toishanese or Toisanese, in local dialect as Hoisanese or Hoisan-wa...
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Hong Kong written Chinese (category Cantonese culture)
Hong Kong. The grammar of the Hong Kong written Chinese is largely based on Mandarin Chinese, while its phonology is based on Cantonese. Yet one distinguishes...
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body of Chinese honorifics previously preserved in the vocabulary and grammar of Classical Chinese. Although Chinese honorifics have simplified to a...
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into Cantonese grammar. For instance, 兩part (loeng5 paat1, 'two parts'), "part" would lose its plural morpheme "s" as do its counterpart in Cantonese. equip...
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Jyutping (redirect from Cantonese Input Method)
Linguistic Society of Hong Kong Cantonese Romanization Scheme, also known as Jyutping, is a romanisation system for Cantonese developed in 1993 by the Linguistic...
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sound before grave vowels, while Cantonese retained the original distinction (compare Mandarin 武 wǔ, 屋 wū, Cantonese 武 mou5, 屋 uk1). Middle Chinese initial...
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orthography based on a variety other than Standard Chinese is Written Cantonese. A common Cantonese character is 冇 (mou5; 'to not have'), derived by removing two...
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Singdarin Cantonese Hokkien Hakka Phonology Historical Old Old National Cantonese Hokkien Northern Wu Mandarin Literary and colloquial readings Grammar Numerals...
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Standard Chinese (section Grammar)
both grammar and vocabulary by local languages such as Cantonese, Hokkien, and Malay. Instances of code-switching with English, Hokkien, Cantonese, Malay...
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varieties of Chinese are not written, there are traditions of written Cantonese, written Shanghainese and written Hokkien, among others. Written Chinese...
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Singdarin Cantonese Hokkien Hakka Phonology Historical Old Old National Cantonese Hokkien Northern Wu Mandarin Literary and colloquial readings Grammar Numerals...
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