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2. Written Cantonese - Wikipedia

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   IPA. v. t. e. Written Cantonese is the most complete written form of a Chinese language after that for Mandarin Chinese and Classical Chinese. Written Chinese was the main literary language of China until the 19th century. Written vernacular Chinese first appeared in the 17th century, and a written form of Mandarin became standard throughout ...

3. Cantonese grammar - Wikipedia

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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. Unlike synthetic languages, seldom do words indicate ...

4. List of Chinese classifiers - Wikipedia

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   jou2. "set" — general mass-classifier for sets of objects (sets of, e.g. batteries 電池 / 电池, planets 行星, variables 變量 / 变量, data 数据 / 數據, objects 對象 / 对象, words 詞 / 词, or any sensible thing you want to name). A set is usually assumed to have two or more objects.

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. Horizontal and vertical writing in East Asian scripts - Wikipedia

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   Many East Asian scripts can be written horizontally or vertically. Chinese characters, Korean hangul, and Japanese kana may be oriented along either axis, as they consist mainly of disconnected logographic or syllabic units, each occupying a square block of space, thus allowing for flexibility for which direction texts can be written, be it horizontally from left-to-right, horizontally from ...

7. A Chinese Syllabary Pronounced According to the Dialect of ...

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   A Chinese Syllabary Pronounced According to the Dialect of Canton ( 粵音韻彙) is a book written by Wong Shik-Ling ( 黃錫凌) within a few years before being published in Hong Kong, 1941. It is one of the most influential books on the research of Cantonese pronunciation. Many Chinese dictionaries later used Wong's Chinese character indices ...

8. Comparison of Cantonese transcription systems - Wikipedia

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   Transliteration of Chinese. The chart below shows the difference between S. L. Wong (romanization), Guangdong Romanization, Cantonese Pinyin, Jyutping, Yale, Sidney Lau, Meyer–Wempe, along with IPA, S. L. Wong phonetic symbols and Cantonese Bopomofo.

9. S. L. Wong (phonetic symbols) - Wikipedia

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   The scheme, known as S. L. Wong system (黃錫凌式), is a broad phonemic transcription system based on IPA and its analysis of Cantonese phonemes is grounded in the theories of Y. R. Chao. Other than the phonemic transcription system, Wong also derived a romanisation scheme published in the same book. See S. L. Wong (romanisation).