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  2. Hong Kong Cantonese - Wikipedia

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    Hong Kong Cantonese is a dialect of Cantonese spoken primarily in Hong Kong. As the most commonly spoken language in Hong Kong, it shares a recent and direct lineage with the Guangzhou ( Canton ) dialect.

  3. Languages of Hong Kong - Wikipedia

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    As a result of immigration into Hong Kong from Canton Province, Cantonese is the dominant Chinese variant spoken in the territory with smaller numbers of speakers of other dialects. There are also numerous Chinese languages spoken by the native peoples of the New Territories , many of which are mutually unintelligible.

  4. Cantonese - Wikipedia

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    Another key feature of Hong Kong Cantonese is the two syllabic nasals /ŋ̩˨˩/ and /m̩˨˩/ merging. This can be exemplified in the elimination of the contrast of sounds between 吳 (Ng, a surname) ([ŋ̩˨˩] in Guangzhou pronunciation) and 唔 (not) ([m̩˨˩] in Guangzhou pronunciation). Hong Kong Cantonese pronounce both words as the ...

  5. The quest to save Cantonese in a world dominated by Mandarin

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    Hong Kong, a bastion of Cantonese, is firmly under Chinese control, and Mandarin is poised to gain more primacy there. In the L.A. area, Mandarin has become more dominant in recent decades with ...

  6. Cantonese people - Wikipedia

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    During the following century of British rule, Hong Kong grew into a hub of Cantonese culture and has remained as such since the handover in 1997. Today Hong Kong is one of the world's leading financial centres and the Hong Kong dollar is the thirteenth most-traded currency in the world.

  7. Dim Sum Is a Way of Life in Cantonese Culture - AOL

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    At Michelin-starred Cantonese restaurant Spring Moon, an institution since 1986 housed within The Peninsula Hong Kong, one of the elegant dishes during a tour de force lunch may be a pan-fried cod ...

  8. Yue Chinese - Wikipedia

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    The ancestors of most of the Han Chinese population of Hong Kong came from Guangzhou after the territory was ceded to Britain in 1842. As a result, Hong Kong Cantonese, the most widely spoken language in Hong Kong and Macau, is an offshoot of the Guangzhou dialect. [20]

  9. Hong Kong: Closure of Cantonese language group worries ... - AOL

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    Cantonese is a Chinese dialect spoken by a majority in Hong Kong - some fear China wants to change that.