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		When Cantonese is referred to as a language, it is quite clear that it actually refers to Guangzhouese as there is no one single Guangdongese language.Indeed although people in Hong Kong refer to their dominant local language as Guangdongese, in China itself government broadcasts make clear that they are broadcasting in Guangzhouese.
		Cantonese is one of the major divisions of spoken Chinese.
		Cantonese language opera exists in the form of Cantonese opera, which uses a theatrical form of Cantonese singing and rhyming patterns in its performances.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Cantonese_people (1497 words)

	Cantonese Chinese Language Review (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Cantonese is the most influential Chinese dialect after Mandarin, and despite the fact that it has less total speakers, the geographical spread of Cantonese has historically been much greater and largely remains so to this day.
		Cantonese speakers were the earliest Chinese immigrants in many of these countries and despite the more recent migration of Mandarin and Hokkien speakers, the Cantonese still form a majority among the Chinese population in most countries.
		Finally, some people have reported that it is difficult to practice their Cantonese, especially in Hong Kong, due to the high level of English, and the fact that natives are not used to listening to foreigners speak their language.
	how-to-learn-any-language.com /e/languages/cantonese-chinese/index.html (2319 words)

	Cantonese
		The origins of Cantonese are not known due to absence of reliable historical records, however, it is generally agreed that it had acquired linguistics traits distinguishing it from other Chinese dialects by the time of the Tang Dynasty (618-907 AD).
		Cantonese is considered to be a conservative dialect because its sound system has preserved the final consonants and tones of the Tang Dynasty literary standard.
		Cantonese is considered to be a Category III language in terms of difficulty for speakers of English.
	www.nvtc.gov /lotw/months/may/Cantonese.html (1113 words)

	LACLC Frequently Asked Questions
		Cantonese is spoken by people in Hong Kong and southern part of China.
		However, it is true that Taiwanese people in general speak differently from Taiwanese television or radio broadcasters (You might wonder why Taiwanese people in general don't learn the standard Mandarin from their TV or radio broadcasters.
		For example, while educated people in Mainland China and Taiwanese television or radio broadcasters pronounce "to be" as "shir4", Taiwanese people in general pronounce it as "si4".
	chinese-school.netfirms.com /faq.html (862 words)

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		But the colloquial Cantonese written down in words is sometimes hard to understand for Mandarin speaking people because Cantonese use lots of different expressions in their daily oral Cantonese.
		With the advent of the computer and standardization of character sets specifically for Cantonese, many printed materials in predominantly Cantonese spoken areas of the world are written to cater to their population with these written Cantonese characters.
		This tension between the "old" and "new" is a reflection of a transition that is being undergone by the Cantonese speaking population.
	www.lycos.com /info/cantonese--colloquial-cantonese.html (641 words)

	Language Difficulty Essay
		Cantonese does have a dominant romanization system, Yale Cantonese romanization, but there are other methods being used and others under development, and there is no system that has official support in the same way that Mandarin pinyin does.
		However, Cantonese does have five symbols in its most commonly used romanization (Yale) that have multiple sound correspondences and an unrecognizable symbol (the symbol "h" would not be intuitively recognized as marking the low tone).
		Because Cantonese is more difficult than Mandarin for English speakers in every relevant category given in the Language Difficulty Index, it is unnecessary to count the number of points in order to determine that Cantonese is more difficult for native English speakers according to the criteria provided.
	www.chinese-lessons.com /cantonese/difficulty.htm (4025 words)

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		Cantonese is noteworthy because it retains from T'ang Chinese a greater variety of finals.
		Cantonese is mainly spoken in Guangdong (where Guangzhou/Canton is the capital) and Guangxi provinces and most of the overseas Chiinese communities in Autralia, Europe, North America and other parts of the world.
		Cantonese is the most extensively spoken Chinese dialect after Mandarin because of the strong influence of Hong Kong's economy and culture(pop songs, TV programs and movies) and...
	www.lycos.com /info/cantonese.html (463 words)

	Cantonese language, pronunciation and special characters
		Cantonese is spoken by about 66 million people mainly in the south east of China, particularly in Hong Kong, Macau, Guangdong, Guangxi and Hainan.
		Cantonese is also the main language of business, the media and government in both Hong Kong and Macau.
		Cantonese, Dungan, Gan, Hakka, Mandarin, Shanghainese, Taiwanese, Teochew, Xiang
	www.omniglot.com /writing/cantonese.htm (517 words)

	Cantonese Food
		Cantonese cuisine includes almost all edible food in addition to the staples of pork, beef and chicken, such as snakes, snails, insects, worms, chicken feet, duck tongues, and entrails.
		Cantonese normally only consume the liquid in the pot, the solids are usually thrown away unless they are expensive such as abalones or shark fins.
		Dim sum is part of the Cantonese culture, it is common to see good Cantonese restaurants crowded with people having dim sums on sunday mornings, enjoying dim sum while reading newspapers.
	www.shanghaifinance.com /food/cantonesefood/cantonesefood.php (742 words)

	Language Centre
		Cantonese people tend to simplify Japanese sounds expressed by double consonants “kk”, “pp”, “ss”, and “tt” as “k”, “p”, “s” and “t”.
		The difficulty Cantonese people may have in recognizing some sounds are in fact closely related to their difficulty in producing these sounds.
		A lot of problems are often the result of the fact that people tend to use the strategy they use in pronouncing or recognizing different sounds in their own native language.
	lc.ust.hk /~sac/advice/japanese/pronunciation/JP6.htm (1911 words)

	Cantonese language resources
		Cantonese is de facto official language of Hong Kong, Macao and the province of Guangdong.
		Cantonese Language Association (CLA) The purpose of the association is to facilitate communication among teachers and scholars of Cantonese and to promote study and research in the fields of...
		Cantonese is one of the major dialect groups or languages of the Chinese language or language family.
	www.mongabay.com /indigenous_ethnicities/languages/languages/Cantonese.html (1304 words)

	On Your Own In China
		The Cantonese have been emigrating for a century and a half, mostly to Southeast Asia and North America, but just about every country in the world seems to have a Chinese community these days, and virtually all of them are composed of Cantonese people.
		Cantonese food may be better overall in Hong Kong, but Canton still beats the British colony in the field of exotic dishes, mostly because of a lack of legal inhibitions, which prohibit the sale of dog meat and other such items in Hong Kong's restaurants.
		Cantonese cuisine used to be famous for live monkey brains served straight out of the monkey's skull on to your plate, but it is now rarely heard of.
	www.earnshaw.com /china/ch08.html (3826 words)

	Leading The Way: Stories
		Cantonese also is a dominant language in Chinese communities within other countries.
		Cantonese also is a dominant language in other countries with significant Chinese communities.
		Many people tune into the dual-language broadcasts to learn or to sharpen their English skills while they are introduced to and encouraged by the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
	www.leadingtheway.org /site/PageServer?pagename=sto_ProChristCantonese (715 words)

	EastSouthWestNorth: The Mother Tongue of Hong Kong
		But people are ignoring that the 'Chinese' language of instruction at the Chinese University of Hong Kong is actually Cantonese, and this is divergent from mainland China, Taiwan and other Chinese around the world.
		People from Shanghai speak the Shanghai dialect, people from Guangdong speak Cantonese, people from Sichuan speak the Sichuan dialect...
		People should not politicize the teaching of putonghua, nor think that this is a matter of mainland culture overrunning Hong Kong.
	www.zonaeuropa.com /20050221_2.htm (1771 words)

	Asia Finest Discussion Forum > Chinese/Cantonese/Mandarin
		Cantonese is mostly spoken by the southern Chinese.
		Cantonese is spoken in Canton (which also speak mandarin) and in Hong Kong and probably some small places there if i'm missing any.
		Cantonese is a separate language and has its own dialects, such as Guangzhou dialect, Dongguan dialect, Taishan Dialect, HK dialect....
	www.asiafinest.com /forum/lofiversion/index.php/t40878.html (2285 words)

	mandarin
		But Cantonese is quite different from Mandarin, which is the official language of mainland China and is also the form of Chinese spoken in Taiwan.
		Even after the People’s Republic of China was founded, large numbers of Cantonese continued to emigrate to Hong Kong to look for a better life, or to use it as a bridge to the United States, because Hong Kong was a free port.
		Cantonese dominance in Chinatown is also due to Chinese government’s constraints on allowing students or business travelers to go abroad until China implemented an open policy in the late 1970s.
	journalism.berkeley.edu /projects/gorneyj200/mandarin.html (1221 words)

	Cantonese.hk: The views and experiences of a foreigner learning Cantonese
		Though in Guangzhou, it still confuses me how people could learn to understand the language perfectly but couldn’t be bothered to open their mouths to speak Cantonese after 20 years of living there.
		Seemed to be very popular in Guangzhou for people to speak their native language and receive replies in another.
		Cantonese.hk: The views and experiences of a foreigner learning Cantonese is powered by WordPress 2.2.1 and delivered to you in 0.212 seconds using 20 queries.
	cantonese.hk /wp (1255 words)

	The Epoch Times :: Commentary: Hong Kong People Wishing in Vain
		The people of Hong Kong who lost the confidence that the Communist Party promises, “Hong Kong people rule Hong Kong” are suggesting that “the people of Hong Kong [were] speaking in vain” as early as 20 years ago.
		If the government were determined to keep faking the “Hong Kong People Rule Hong Kong” situation, they could have asked the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region government to release the “explanation of the Basic Law,” and let the HKSAR government handle feedback from Hong Kong residents.
		Hong Kong’s native language is Cantonese, which is the language used in schools and at social events among the Chinese.
	english.epochtimes.com /news/4-5-11/21370.html (741 words)

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		Cantonese people drink them after every meal, which mostly is very high in calories, and high in both vegetable and animal fat.
		Cantonese food is usually very fat, starchy and even their deserts are high in animal fat(very tasty indeed).
		If you spend a lot of time watching TV, instead of watching in a couch, set a rug on the floor, throw a couple of pillows to support your head, and watch TV laying on the floor.
	www.beautybeyondskindeep.com /bodybeautiful.htm (659 words)

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		They showed a great number of people, the buildings were too short for kelly chen to make her way through to visit the people.
		Cantonese are almost like a foreign group to the Northern Han people, and many don't like how Cantonese act, and their language.
		Oh yeah, Leon Lai pretty tall guy at 6ft~ And most beijing people are not of manchu descent, during the ming dynasty, thousands of han chinese from LuoYang, Chang An, moved to the defensive fort that was changed to the capital of china for it's convenience.
	goldsea.com /Poll/Height/height_20304.html (1407 words)

	Cantonese Around the World - Cantonese Help sheets
		In the early 20th century, Chinese people began to arrive in Paris' 3rd district (not the 13th district as is sometimes thought).
		Cantonese is widely spoken by Chinese people in New Zealand, although the Cantonese speaking population is pretty much all concentrated in Auckland (I have recently moved down to Wellington - the capital city of NZ - and have not spoken a word of Cantonese except to my family back home in Auckland!).
		The majority of Cantonese speakers are from Hong Kong (the relative HK population here is quite large for a western country).
	www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk /essays/cantonese_around_the_world.htm (1442 words)

	Learn Cantonese (Chinese), Cantonese (Chinese) Windows, Cantonese (Chinese) Office, Cantonese (Chinese) Software, ...
		An educated guess would be about 1.1 billion in the People's Republic of China, to which must be added another 20 million on Taiwan, 5 million in Hong Kong, 4 million in Malaysia, l¾ million in Singapore, one million in Vietnam, and lesser numbers in other countries including the United States.
		A given word may be quite different in Mandarin and Cantonese, but it would be written identically in the two dialects.
		In 1955 the Chinese People's Republic initiated a plan to simplify more than 1,700 characters, this number to be increased gradually so that over half of the most commonly used symbols would eventually be simplified.
	www.worldlanguage.com /Languages/CantoneseChinese.htm (1082 words)

	Who were the Cantonese (Guandong Ren/Tang Ren)? - China History Forum, chinese history forum
		Basically, a cantonese is a chinese who comes from the southern region of Guangdong (canton) province in south China, where the dialect of Cantonese (粤语) is spoken.
		The Yue people are considered by the civilized chinese of the central plain (中原) as uncivilized and therefore barbaric.
		Although the Yue kingdom was conquered by the chu kingdom, the Yue people survived.
	www.chinahistoryforum.com /index.php?showtopic=211 (2236 words)

	How Cantonese reduced me to tears. - By Daisann McLane - Slate Magazine
		Cantonese, the lingua franca of Hong Kong, is a language so difficult that it once reduced me to tears.
		There's a need to "popularize" Putonghua, the "people's language," because in China, Putonghua is nobody's native tongue—it's a construct, a national standard language that was officially adopted after the revolution to unite the far-flung regions of China.
		People identify and take pride in themselves as denizens of a particular place by the way they talk.
	www.slate.com /id/2106672/entry/2106859 (1150 words)

	The Cultural Heritage of China :: Health :: Traditional Chinese Medicine :: Food Therapy
		It is particularly popular among Cantonese people who enjoy slow-cooked soups.
		Cantonese people pay much attention to the body's reaction to food.
		In effect, many Cantonese people practice food therapy in day to day situations.
	www.ibiblio.org /chineseculture/contents/heal/p-heal-c01s09.html (865 words)

	Who Are The Catonese? - Asia Finest Discussion Forum
		Well, the inhabitants of the Guangdong region (Cantonese) are mainly a result of intermixing from more Northern migrants with local tribes (mainly of Malay-Viet stock) Guangdong officially started to become assimilated into China probably by the end of the Tang to Song dynasty.
		People no longer stay in their own city or village, instead they move to wherever they can find job opportunities.
		I was told that during Yuan dynasty, upperclass/northern people labeled Cantonese people as savages.
	www.asiafinest.com /forum/index.php?showtopic=5397 (1393 words)

	The Standard - China's Business Newspaper
		More people speak Portuguese than speak French or Japanese, yet Portuguese is usually considered a "minor" language, akin perhaps to Greek in the pantheon of European languages or even a sort of dialect of Spanish, rather than a world language spoken across the Americas, Europe, Africa and Asia.
		Cantonese has an identity problem even more dire than that of Portuguese, for all linguistic evidence to the contrary, Cantonese is often referred to as a "dialect" rather than the language it is.
		Hong Kong has a natural consistency of Cantonese speakers around the world: while it cannot exactly emulate the Comunidade dos Paises de Lingua Portuguesa, there is still value in reaching out to the community of Cantonese-speakers.
	www.thestandard.com.hk /news_detail.asp?pp_cat=15&art_id=32387&sid=10994372&con_type=1 (795 words)

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