Cantonese is a dialect, right?

Cantonese, also known as Cantonese, Guangfu dialect and Tang dialect, is commonly known as "vernacular" and is a kind of tonal language of Sino-Tibetan Chinese. Cantonese is the mother tongue of Guangfu family of Han nationality, an important carrier of Guangfu culture and one of the basic symbolic cultural identities of Guangfu family.

Cantonese has a complete set of nine tones and six tones, which retains more features of ancient Chinese and has a complete series of characters, which can be completely expressed by Chinese characters (Cantonese characters). Besides Mandarin, China is the only Chinese language independently studied in foreign universities.

Cantonese is the official language of Hong Kong and Macao, the fourth largest language in Australia, the third largest language in the United States and Canada, and the second largest language in New Zealand.

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Standard Cantonese/Cantonese Cantonese dialect has many archaic sounds. There are many ancient words, ancient meanings and quaint expressions in Cantonese, and many words in Cantonese, including modal particles, can be directly found in ancient books in China.

In northern Chinese dialects, these archaic words have been abandoned or rarely used, while in Cantonese, grammatical items such as postposition and modifier inversion are retained, and modern Cantonese still has a high tendency to use monosyllabic words which are dominant in ancient Chinese.

Some words and phrases regarded as popular by Cantonese speakers can be found in ancient books. Guangdong, which is located in a corner, is rarely in war and has not been affected by too many wars, so it has always retained the language and culture of Han and Tang Dynasties.