Cantonese
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cantonese-190-208082
title:
Cantonese
text:
Cantonese is the traditional prestige variety of Yue Chinese, a Sinitic branch of the Sino-Tibetan languages originating from the city of Guangzhou and its surrounding Pearl River Delta, with over 82.4 million native speakers. Cantonese 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. In mainland China, it is the lingua franca of the Chinese province of Gu
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Variety of Yue Chinese
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantonese
date created:
2004-10-22T16:19:35Z
date modified:
2024-09-09T12:55:30Z
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