Where do you speak Cantonese?

Cantonese: It is widely popular in Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan, Hong Kong and Macau, as well as overseas Chinese communities such as Kuala Lumpur, Ho Chi Minh City, Melbourne, Christmas Island, new york, San Francisco, Vancouver and Toronto.

Cantonese:

Also known as Cantonese and Guangfu dialect, commonly known as vernacular, it is called Tang dialect overseas, which belongs to one of the seven dialects of tonal language and China in Sino-Tibetan language family, and is also the mother tongue of Guangfu people of Han nationality.

There are about 67 million Cantonese speakers in Guangdong. Together with about 25 million Cantonese speakers in Guangxi, 7 million Cantonese speakers in Hong Kong, 550,000 Cantonese speakers in Macau, 5 million Cantonese speakers in Thailand, 5 million Cantonese speakers in Singapore and Malaysia, and 2 million Cantonese speakers in the United States and Canada, the number of Cantonese speakers in the world is close to 65.438+0.2 billion.

Extended data cantonese tone

The tone of Cantonese is also very different from that of the north. There are six tones, one is clear, the other is clear, the third is clear, the fourth is turbid, the fifth is turbid, and the sixth is turbid. After that, it is the high entrance to promote sound clarity, the middle entrance to promote sound clarity and the low entrance to promote sound turbidity.

Nine o'clock. Modern Cantonese grammar, such as Shuida, Dried Vegetable, Renke, Chicken Gong and Fish Sheng, has a common grammatical structure, that is, adjectives are used as modifiers after nouns.

Cantonese speech

The main projects of Guangzhou dialect: Dongshan, Xiguan, Xicun and Panyu. Guangzhou dialect is "Guangzhou dialect" in a narrow sense. Because it is located in the central city of the Pearl River Basin, it is the mother tongue of tens of millions of local residents in Guangzhou and Hong Kong.

The long-term guidance of traditional Cantonese opera culture and Cantonese pop culture has great influence, and it has been accepted as the established standard pronunciation by people in various Cantonese dialect areas. Cantonese itself is slowly changing. Guangzhou has a wide range of sound reception, even including some accents from Foshan, Zhongshan and Hong Kong.

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia-Cantonese