cantonese

the dialect of Chinese spoken in Canton and neighboring provinces and in Hong Kong and elsewhere outside China

Cantonese generally refers to people or things associated with Guangdong Province of ChinaProvince, Hong Kong or Macau in China.

Cantonese people: people residing in, or with ancestry in, Guangdong and environs

* Many people of Cantonese descent reside in Canada, Australia, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam, United KingdomUK, Ireland and the United States of AmericaUnited States, and other places, part of the overseas ChineseChinese overseas diaspora.

The Cantonese (linguistics)Cantonese language: the native speech of many Cantonese people and residents of Guandong, Hong Kong, Macau, and other Chinese communities in China and elsewhere, including a large proportion of overseas Chinese. (Considered a ''language'' mainly by non-Chinese scholars, based on intelligibility, or a ''dialect'' mainly by Chinese scholars, and in Western popular speech, based on Chinese characterwriting system and History of Chinacultural-historical factors)

* The Cantonese (linguistics)Cantonese language/dialect, broadly, is the speech originally developed among populations of Guangdong and environs.

* Standard Cantonese is the prestige dialectprestige and mainstream (sub)dialect of Cantonese, historically based on that of Guangzhou, also usually simply called Cantonese.

*Cantonese includes other (sub)dialects, such as Taishan dialect or Waitau.

Cantonese cuisine: cuisine of the style historically popularized in Guangzhou, or broadly, among overseas ChineseChinese communities abroad with origins in Guangdong.

Etymology - The term "Cantonese" derives from the place-name "Canton, ChinaCanton", a former name used in Western languages for Guangzhou, the capital of Guangdong Province. Most likely, it is a corruption of the Cantonese-language pronunciation ''Gwong Dung'', the name of the province, romanized in former systems as Kwang Tung or Kwangtung. The name 'Canton' was then erroneously applied to the city of Guangzhou. In some European languages both the city and the province is known as Canton (or similar spellings). Additional confusion may have come about as a result of confusion between Cantonese-language and other Chinese versions of the name (e.g. Mandarin (linguistics)Mandarin), as well as mispronunciations by users of the romanization systems.

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