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  2. Yue Chinese - Wikipedia

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    A speaker of Siyi Yue Chinese providing examples of differences between Siyi Yue and Cantonese. When the Chinese government removed the prohibition on emigration in the mid-19th century, many people from rural areas in the coastal regions of Fujian and Guangdong emigrated to Southeast Asia and North America.

  3. Cantonese - Wikipedia

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    Differences between the three main standards are highlighted in bold. Jyutping and Cantonese Pinyin recognize certain sounds used in a few colloquial words (like /tɛːu˨/ 掉, /lɛːm˧˥/ 舔, and /kɛːp˨/ 夾) but have not been officially recognized in other systems like Yale. Letters Q, R, V and X are not used in any of the systems. [84 ...

  4. List of varieties of Chinese - Wikipedia

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    Distribution of Chinese dialect groups within the Greater China Region This video explains the differences in pronunciation and vocabulary among Mandarin Dialects (Std. Mandarin, Sichuan Mandarin and NE Mandarin) and Cantonese. The following is a list of Sinitic languages and their dialects.

  5. File:WIKITONGUES- Joseph speaking Siyi Yue.webm - Wikipedia

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    Joseph's variety of Yue, known as Siyi Yue, had nearly 4 million speakers in China as of 2010. As a Cantonese dialect, Yue is part of the Sino-Tibetan language family; its speakers share a large percentage of vocabulary with Cantonese and can learn to speak standard Cantonese easily, however the tonal systems are distinct.

  6. Cantonese people - Wikipedia

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    During the early 1800s, conflict occurred between Cantonese and Portuguese pirates in the form of the Ningpo massacre after the defeat of Portuguese pirates. [41] The First (1839–1842) and Second Opium Wars (1856–1860) led to the loss of China's control over Hong Kong and Kowloon, which were ceded to the British Empire.

  7. Varieties of Chinese - Wikipedia

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    Yue: Cantonese; Yale Romanization: hon yúh: ... a major difference between China and Western Europe is the historical reestablishment of political unity in 6th ...

  8. Siyi Yue - Wikipedia

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    A speaker of Siyi Yue, specifically Huicheng dialect, recorded in China.. Siyi (Seiyap or Sze Yup in Cantonese; Chinese: 四邑方言; pinyin: Sìyì fāngyán; Jyutping: sei3 jap1 fong1 jin4 meaning "Four Hamlets") is a coastal branch of Yue Chinese spoken mainly in Guangdong province, but is also used in overseas Chinese communities.

  9. Cantonese phonology - Wikipedia

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    The distinction of voiced and voiceless consonants found in Middle Chinese was preserved by the distinction of tones in Cantonese. The difference in vowel length further caused the splitting of the dark entering tone, making Cantonese (as well as other Yue Chinese branches) one of the few Chinese varieties to have further split a tone after the ...