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| | Cantonese (linguistics) Paper @ AlienArtifacts.com (Alien Artifacts) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20) |
 | | Unusual for a regional (i.e., non-Mandarin) Chinese language, Cantonese has a written form, developed over the last few decades in Hong Kong, and includes many unique characters that are not found in standard written Chinese. |
 | | Circumstances where written Cantonese is used include conversations through instant messenger services, entertainment magazines and entertainment sections of newspapers, and sometimes subtitles in Hong Kong movies, and advertisements. |
 | | However, written colloquial Cantonese does exist; it is used mostly for transcription of speech in tabloids, in some broadsheets, for some subtitles, for personal diary, and in other informal forms of communication such as BBS on internet or e-mails. |
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