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  2. Written Cantonese - Wikipedia

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    [citation needed] Donald B. Snow, the author of Cantonese as Written Language: The Growth of a Written Chinese Vernacular, wrote that "It is difficult to quantify precisely how different" the two vocabularies are. [5] Snow wrote that the different vocabulary systems are the main difference between written Mandarin and written Cantonese. [5]

  3. 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.

  4. Cantonese - Wikipedia

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    Cantonese was the dominant Chinese language of the Chinese Australian community from the time the first ethnic Chinese settlers arrived in the 1850s until the mid-2000s, when a heavy increase in immigration from Mandarin-speakers largely from mainland China led to Mandarin surpassing Cantonese as the dominant Chinese dialect spoken. Cantonese ...

  5. 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 ...

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

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    Many Americans are more familiar with Cantonese's singsong cadences than the more clipped tones of Mandarin. Cantonese is the language of San Francisco Chinatown’s dim sum restaurants and herbal ...

  7. Min Chinese - Wikipedia

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    Written Cantonese has carried this process out to the farthest extent of any non-Mandarin variety, to the extent that pure Cantonese vernacular can be unambiguously written using Chinese characters. Contrary to popular belief, a vernacular written in this fashion is not in general comprehensible to a Mandarin speaker, due to significant changes ...

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