32 Facts About Cantonese Language

Cantonese Language is viewed as a vital and inseparable part of the cultural identity for its native speakers across large swaths of Southeastern China, Hong Kong and Macau, as well as in overseas communities.

Cantonese Language is widely spoken amongst Overseas Chinese in Southeast Asia and throughout the Western world.

Conversely, written Cantonese Language is mostly used in informal settings such as on social media and comic books.

Cantonese Language proper is the variety native to the city of Canton, which is the traditional English name of Guangzhou.

Cantonese Language emerged as the prestige variety of Yue Chinese when the port city of Guangzhou on the Pearl River Delta became the largest port in China, with a trade network stretching as far as Arabia.

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Cantonese Language was used in the popular Yue'ou, Muyu and Nanyin folksong genres, as well as Cantonese Language opera.

Meanwhile, Cantonese Language has remained the official variety of Chinese in Hong Kong and Macau, both during and after the colonial period.

The Cantonese Language spoken in Hong Kong and Macau is mutually intelligible with the Cantonese Language spoken in the mainland city of Guangzhou, although there exist some minor differences in accent, pronunciation, and vocabulary.

Cantonese Language first developed around the port city of Guangzhou in the Pearl River Delta region of southeastern China.

Many local Cantonese speaking families in Guangdong province overall in general including in Guangzhou have started placing more stronger emphasis to encourage the use of Cantonese with their children to preserve the local language and culture.

Cantonese Language has historically served as a lingua franca among overseas Chinese in Southeast Asia, who speak a variety of other forms of Chinese including Hokkien, Teochew, and Hakka.

In Vietnam, Cantonese is the dominant language of the main ethnic Chinese community, usually referred to as Hoa, which numbers about one million people and constitutes one of the largest minority groups in the country.

In Malaysia, Cantonese Language is widely spoken amongst the Malaysian Chinese community in the capital city of Kuala Lumpur and the surrounding areas in the Klang Valley .

Cantonese Language radio is available in the nation and Cantonese Language is prevalent in locally produced Chinese television.

Cantonese Language spoken in Malaysia and Singapore often exhibits influences from Malay and other Chinese varieties spoken in the country, such as Hokkien and Teochew.

Guangxi Cantonese Language Dialect is still somewhat often spoken in parts of Malaysia.

Furthermore, Cantonese Language serves as the lingua franca with other Chinese communities in the region.

In Indonesia, Cantonese Language is locally known as Konghu and is one of the variants spoken by the Chinese Indonesian community, with speakers largely concentrated in major cities such as Jakarta, Surabaya and Batam.

Zhongshan variant of Cantonese Language, which originated from the western Pearl River Delta, is spoken by many Chinese immigrants in Hawaii, and some in San Francisco and the Sacramento River Delta .

In Northern California, especially the San Francisco Bay Area, Cantonese Language has historically and continues to dominate in the Chinatowns of San Francisco and Oakland, as well as the surrounding suburbs and metropolitan area, although since the late 2000s a concentration of Mandarin speakers has formed in Silicon Valley.

In contrast, Southern California hosts a much larger Mandarin-speaking population, with Cantonese Language found in more historical Chinese communities such as that of Chinatown, Los Angeles, and older Chinese ethnoburbs such as San Gabriel, Rosemead, and Temple City.

Cantonese Language is the most common Chinese variety spoken among Chinese Canadians.

Cantonese Language is spoken by ethnic Chinese in Portugal who originate from Macau, the most established Chinese community in the nation with a presence dating back to the 16th century and Portuguese colonialism.

Since the late-20th century Mandarin- and Wu-speaking migrants from mainland China have outnumbered those from Macau, although Cantonese Language is still retained among mainstream Chinese community associations.

Cantonese Language is the predominant Chinese variety spoken in Hong Kong and Macau.

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Increasingly since the 1997 Handover, Cantonese Language has been used as a symbol of local identity in Hong Kong, largely through the development of democracy in the territory and desinicization practices to emphasise a separate Hong Kong identity.

Hong Kong Cantonese Language has some minor variations in phonology, but is largely identical to standard Guangzhou Cantonese Language.

Systematic efforts to develop an alphabetic representation of Cantonese Language began with the arrival of Protestant missionaries in China early in the nineteenth century.

Samuel Wells Willams' Tonic Dictionary of the Chinese Cantonese Language in the Canton Dialect, is an alphabetic rearrangement, translation and annotation of the Fenyun.

The Barnett-Chao romanization system was first used in Chao's Cantonese Language Primer, published in 1947 by Harvard University Press .

Cantonese Language derived an IPA-based transcription system, the S L Wong system, used by many Chinese dictionaries later published in Hong Kong.

Google Cantonese Language input uses Yale, Jyutping or Cantonese Language Pinyin, Yale being the first standard.