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Cantonese is an analytic language in which the arrangement of words in a sentence is important to its meaning. A basic sentence is in the form of SVO, i.e. a subject is followed by a verb then by an object, though this order is often violated because Cantonese is a topic-prominent language.
See also Cantonese love-songs, translated with introduction and notes by Cecil Clementi (1904) or a newer translation of these by Peter T. Morris in Cantonese love songs : an English translation of Jiu Ji-yung's Cantonese songs of the early 19th century (1992). Cantonese character versions of the Bible, Pilgrims Progress, and Peep of Day, as ...
The Eight Principles of Yong are used by calligraphers to practice how to write the eight most common strokes in regular script, using the fact that they are all present in the character 永; yǒng; 'forever', 'permanence'.
Native speakers of English use this inventory. Because most lexical items in CPE are derived from English, native English speakers simply use the pronunciation familiar to them. For non-native English speakers, who were largely Cantonese speakers, [v, θ, ð, r, ʃ, ʒ] are not present, because these sounds are not present in Cantonese. [12]
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walls 墻 (Cantonese only) 部: bù bou6: bou6 phō "part" — novels 小說 / 小说, movies 電影 / 电影, TV dramas etc.; vehicles (如 ： 一部大巴 ）; Cantonese only: machines 冊 / 册: 册 / 冊: cè caak3: chaak3 tsheh volumes of books (冊 is more common in Traditional Chinese, 册 in Simplified) 層: 层: céng cang4: chang4 ...