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2. 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 ...

3. 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]

4. Jyutping - Wikipedia

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   The name Jyutping (itself the Jyutping romanisation of its Chinese name, 粵拼) is a contraction of the official name, and it consists of the first Chinese characters of the terms jyut6 jyu5 (Chinese: 粵語; lit. 'Cantonese language') and ping3 jam1 (Chinese: 拼音; lit. 'phonetic alphabet'; pronounced pīnyīn in Mandarin). Despite being ...

5. Romanization of Chinese - Wikipedia

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   Recitation of Chinese text in one Chinese variety by literate speakers of another mutually unintelligible one, e.g. Mandarin and Cantonese. Learning Classical or Modern Chinese. Use with a standard QWERTY or Dvorak keyboard. Replacing Chinese characters to bring functional literacy to illiterate Chinese speakers.

6. CEDICT - Wikipedia

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   CEDICT is a text file; other programs (or simply Notepad or egrep or equivalent) are needed to search and display it. This project is used by several other Chinese-English projects. The Unihan Database uses CEDICT data for most of its information about character compounds, but this is auxiliary and is explicitly not a part of the main Unicode ...

7. 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.

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

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   “The Cantonese-language program was never eliminated,” Leighton said. “This decision to reduce courses, for Cantonese as well as many other languages, was based partly on student demand.”

9. Wade–Giles - Wikipedia

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   Chinese without a teacher, Chinese phrasebook by Herbert Giles with Romanization; Chinese Phonetic Conversion Tool – Converts between Wade–Giles and other formats; Wade–Giles Annotation – Wade–Giles pronunciation and English definitions for Chinese text snippets or web pages. 國語拼音對照表 (in Chinese)