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  2. Cantonese - Wikipedia

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    A notable difference between Cantonese and Mandarin is how the spoken word is written; both can be recorded verbatim, but very few Cantonese speakers are knowledgeable in the full Cantonese written vocabulary, so a non-verbatim formalized written form is adopted, which is more akin to the written Standard Mandarin.

  3. List of varieties of Chinese - Wikipedia

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    Distribution of Chinese dialect groups within the Greater China Region This video explains the differences in pronunciation and vocabulary among Mandarin Dialects (Std. Mandarin, Sichuan Mandarin and NE Mandarin) and Cantonese. The following is a list of Sinitic languages and their dialects.

  4. Written Cantonese - Wikipedia

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    Snow wrote that the different vocabulary systems are the main difference between written Mandarin and written Cantonese. [5] Ouyang Shan made a corpus-based estimate concluding that one third of the lexical items used in regular Cantonese speech do not exist in Mandarin, but that between the formal registers the differences were smaller.

  5. Varieties of Chinese - Wikipedia

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    The results demonstrated significant levels of unintelligibility between areas, even within the Mandarin group. In a few cases, listeners understood fewer than 70% of words spoken by speakers from the same province, indicating significant differences between urban and rural varieties.

  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. Comparison of national standards of Chinese - Wikipedia

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    Malaysian Mandarin; Singaporean Mandarin; Regional variants of Cantonese. Guangzhou Cantonese; Hong Kong Cantonese; Malaysian Cantonese; Regional variants of the English language. British and Malaysian English differences; Regional differences in the Korean language. North-South differences in the Korean language; Regional differences in the ...

  8. Chinese language in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Chinese, including Mandarin and Cantonese among other varieties, is the third most-spoken language in the United States, and is mostly spoken within Chinese-American populations and by immigrants or the descendants of immigrants, especially in California and New York. [6]

  9. Mandarin Chinese - Wikipedia

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    我 wǒ I 给 gěi give 你 nǐ you 一本 yìběn a 书 shū book [我給你一本書] 我 给 你 一本 书 wǒ gěi nǐ yìběn shū I give you a book In southern dialects, as well as many southwestern and Lower Yangtze dialects, the objects occur in the reverse order. Most varieties of Chinese use post-verbal particles to indicate aspect, but the particles used vary. Most Mandarin ...