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<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> Toishanese, though the term is also used to refer to just the <b>Standard</b> <b>Cantonese</b> of <a href="/topics/Guangzhou" title="Guangzhou" class=fl>Guangzhou</a> and Hong Kong. </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> <b>Cantonese</b> characters are often used for formal occasions, within the PRC a character set closer to <a href="/topics/Mandarin-%28linguistics%29" title="Mandarin %28linguistics%29" class=fl>Mandarin</a> tends </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> <b>Standard</b> <a href="/topics/Mandarin-%28linguistics%29" title="Mandarin %28linguistics%29" class=fl>Mandarin</a> will be the only form of speech that everyone understands.</td></tr>
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<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> As for whether <b>Cantonese</b> is considered a <a href="/topics/Dialect" title="Dialect" class=fl>dialect</a> of Chinese, that is only by non-linguists, as from a linguistic standpoint <b>Cantonese</b> is a language, and Chinese is a language *group*. </td></tr>
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<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> This is much like the use of <a href="/topics/Chinese-written-language" title="Chinese written language" class=fl>written</a> <b>standard</b> Hochdeutsch in German-speaking areas of Switzerland today, where the primary <a href="/topics/Chinese-written-language" title="Chinese written language" class=fl>written</a> language is <b>standard</b> Hochdeutsch, and Swiss German <a href="/topics/Dialect" title="Dialect" class=fl>dialects</a> are not used in formal writing, even though in most non-formal contexts primarily Swiss German <a href="/topics/Dialect" title="Dialect" class=fl>dialects</a> are actually <a href="/topics/Spoken-Chinese" title="Spoken Chinese" class=fl>spoken</a>.</td></tr>
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