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2. Cantonese - Wikipedia

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   Cantonese (traditional Chinese: 廣東話; simplified Chinese: 广东话; Jyutping: Gwong2 dung1 waa2; Cantonese Yale: Gwóngdūng wá) is the traditional prestige variety of Yue Chinese, a Sinitic language belonging to the Sino-Tibetan language family, which has over 85 million native speakers. [1]

3. ILE romanization of Cantonese - Wikipedia

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   The Institute of Language in Education Scheme (Chinese: 教院式拼音方案) also known as the List of Cantonese Pronunciation of Commonly-used Chinese Characters romanization scheme (常用字廣州話讀音表), ILE scheme, and Cantonese Pinyin, [1] is a romanization system for Cantonese developed by Ping-Chiu Thomas Yu (Chinese: 余秉昭) in 1971, [2] [3] and subsequently modified by the ...

4. Jyutping - Wikipedia

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   Official website, from the Linguistic Society of Hong Kong; Jyutping Pronunciation Guide; 粵語拼盤: Learning the phonetic system of Cantonese; Chinese Character Database (Phonologically Disambiguated According to the Cantonese Dialect) The CantoDict Project is a dedicated Cantonese-Mandarin-English online dictionary which uses Jyutping by ...

5. Cantonese phonology - Wikipedia

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   A Cantonese syllable usually includes an initial and a final ().The Cantonese syllabary has about 630 syllables. Some like /kʷeŋ˥/ (扃), /ɛː˨/ and /ei˨/ (欸) are no longer common; some like /kʷek˥/ and /kʷʰek˥/ (隙), or /kʷaːŋ˧˥/ and /kɐŋ˧˥/ (梗), have traditionally had two equally correct pronunciations but its speakers are starting to pronounce them in only one ...

6. Yale romanization of Cantonese - Wikipedia

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   Graphical representation of the tones of six-tone Cantonese. Modern Cantonese has up to seven phonemic tones. Cantonese Yale represents these tones using a combination of diacritics and the letter h. [5] [6] Traditional Chinese linguistics treats the tones in syllables ending with a stop consonant as separate "entering tones". Cantonese Yale ...

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

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   With nine tones, Cantonese is even more challenging to learn. Scholars say it is closer to ancient Chinese than Mandarin is — a Tang Dynasty poem would sound more like the original if read in ...