overseas communities, however Cantonese being the most prevalent in Hong Kong. In mainland China, Cantonese is the lingua franca of the Chinese province...
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A lingua franca (/ˌlɪŋɡwə ˈfræŋkə/; lit. 'Frankish tongue'; for plurals see § Usage notes), also known as a bridge language, common language, trade language...
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Hong Kong Cantonese is a dialect of the Cantonese language (廣東話,粵語), which is in the Sino-Tibetan language family. Cantonese is lingua franca of populations...
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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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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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China, Cantonese people have often dominated Han Chinese immigration to the Western world, resulting in Cantonese historically being the lingua franca...
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2006. Cantonese, a major Sinitic language originating in Guangzhou, is the lingua franca in Guangdong, Guangxi, Hong Kong, and Macau. Cantonese has the...
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Taishanese (section Relationship with Cantonese)
distant Yue dialects from the Guangzhou dialect. Standard Cantonese functions as a lingua franca in Guangdong province, and speakers of other Chinese...
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outside Asia where Cantonese once dominated, such as the Chinatown in Manhattan, the use of Standard Chinese, which is the primary lingua franca of more recent...
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Hong Kong English (redirect from Cantonese English)
of native Hong Kong Cantonese speakers. English is one of two official languages in Hong Kong – the other being Chinese (Cantonese) – and is used in academia...
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Community of Portuguese Language Countries (redirect from Comunidade de Países de Língua Portuguesa)
of Portuguese Language Countries (Portuguese: Comunidade dos Países de Língua Portuguesa; abbr. : CPLP), also known as the Lusophone Community (Portuguese:...
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Macanese Patois (section Cantonese)
Chinese (Cantonese), the lingua franca of Macau, refers to any language of Macau (such as the Tanka dialect of Yue Chinese, Standard Cantonese with Macau...
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are usually understood as one standard form of Chinese variety, namely Cantonese and Standard Mandarin. In the context of the written language, written...
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Liangguang area, comprising the Cantonese-speaking provinces of Guangdong and Guangxi. Despite being partly assimilated to the Cantonese-speaking population, they...
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Taishan, Guangdong (category Pages with Cantonese IPA)
Chinese: 臺山; pinyin: Táishān; Jyutping: Toi4saan1), alternately romanized in Cantonese as Toishan or Toisan, in local dialect as Hoisan, and formerly known as...
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Portuguese is the sole official language of Mozambique and serves as a lingua franca between the various ethnic groups in the country. Slightly over 30%...
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community of the Philippines does not use Cantonese as its preferred community language or as a principal lingua franca but rather Philippine Hokkien, which...
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the official national spoken language for the mainland and serves as a lingua franca within the Mandarin-speaking regions (and, to a lesser extent, across...
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as Asian" in 2023. Historically, Chinatown was primarily populated by Cantonese speakers. However, in the 1980s and 1990s, large numbers of Fuzhounese-speaking...
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in as a lingua franca. The Mandarin-speaking groups are the largest group in mainland China, but in the diaspora the Min, Hakka and Cantonese dialects...
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to the 19th centuries, there was also Chinese Pidgin English spoken in Cantonese-speaking portions of China. Chinese Pidgin English is heavily influenced...
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Pombal prohibited the use of Língua Geral or any other indigenous language in Brazil. However, as late as the 1940s, Língua Geral was widely spoken in some...
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Chinese Singaporeans (section Cantonese)
include speakers of Hokkien, Teochew, and to a lesser extent, Hakka and Cantonese. The Singapore Department of Statistics defines "Chinese" as a "race"...
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Mott Street (section Historic Cantonese gangs)
businesses has allowed Cantonese to continue to be Chinatown's lingua franca even though Mandarin as Chinatown's other lingua franca is increasing. Despite...
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Cantonese is an analytic language in which the arrangement of words in a sentence is important to its meaning. A basic sentence is in the form of SVO...
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2002, but was being used as a secondary dialect and replacing Cantonese as their lingua franca. Chinese Americans teach their children Chinese for a variety...
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a form of Junhua, created as a lingua franca by soldiers at the Dapeng Fortress, who spoke various forms of Cantonese and Hakka. Despite strong influence...
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"Verb-second, particles, and flexible verb-initial orders". Lingua. 120 (2): 303–314. doi:10.1016/j.lingua.2008.10.006. Dryer, Matthew S. (2000). "Word Order"...
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Filipino is regulated by Commission on the Filipino Language and serves as a lingua franca used by Filipinos of various ethnolinguistic backgrounds. Republic...
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List of language proficiency tests (section Cantonese)
Italiana di Lingua, Diploma Elementare di Lingua Italiana DELI A1 A2, Diploma Intermedio di Lingua Italiana DILI B1 B2, Diploma Avanzato di Lingua Italiana...
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