The relationship between Cantonese and Chinese, what is the difference between Cantonese and Mandari

Updated on culture 2024-04-16
28 answers
  1. Anonymous users2024-02-07

    Chinese is what Chinese speak, including all Chinese languages, not just Mandarin.

    The name of Cantonese is not appropriate, because there are also people in Guangxi who speak Cantonese, and all Cantonese are more appropriate to call Cantonese or Cantonese dialect. Because there are many kinds of Cantonese, the Cantonese language is different in each place, and the farther west the Pearl River Delta region, the greater the difference. And because Guangzhou is the capital of Guangdong, Cantonese has become the mainstream of Cantonese.

    Cantonese-speaking people call Cantonese vernacular, but it's better to say it that way. Because in ancient times, people with knowledge used classical Chinese to communicate information, so Cantonese is called vernacular in this region.

    Back to "boring idlers", according to you, I now live in western Guangdong, so am I not from Guangxi? But I'm a true Cantonese. Since "Yue" in the modern sense means Guangdong, there is no need to talk about ancient times.

    "Yue" means Guangdong, so people will naturally think that Cantonese = Cantonese, but Guangdong also has Cantonese dialect, Hakka dialect, Meizhou dialect, and Chaoshan dialect. So what exactly does it refer to?

  2. Anonymous users2024-02-06

    It is not standard to call the vernacular Cantonese or Cantonese, because the Hakka and Hokkien dialects are basically understood in Cantonese, and those branches of Cantonese can be spoken in the vernacular, Hakka, Hokkien...., but those who speak Mandarin only regard the vernacular as Cantonese are sorry for the Hakka dialect, and they are sorry for the Guangxi people if they only treat the vernacular as Cantonese, you look at the Cantonese encyclopedia.

  3. Anonymous users2024-02-05

    The Chinese language is divided into eight dialect areas, and Cantonese is one of them.

  4. Anonymous users2024-02-04

    Cantonese through Vietnam, Cantonese The accent of the region where the ancient Yue country is located.

  5. Anonymous users2024-02-03

    There is no difference between Cantonese and Cantonese. Cantonese (the lingua franca of Cantonese) generally refers to the Cantonese language.

    Cantonese, known as Cantonese and Cantonese in Guangdong. The Guangxi region calls Cantonese vernacular, and Han Chinese residents who speak Cantonese are called vernacular people. It is widely used in the Chinese community in the central and western parts of Guangdong, Hong Kong, Macao, and southeastern Guangxi in southern China, as well as in some countries in Southeast Asia, Europe and the United States.

    Its name ** in ancient China to the southern coastal areas of the Yangtze River "Yue" or "Yue" In ancient books, Yue is Yue, ancient Yue, Yue general, for the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River south of the coastal areas of the tribes, often collectively called "Yue", literature called Baiyue, Baiyue, Zhuyue. Guangdong, in the "Historical Records", it is called "Nanyue", and in the "Book of Han", it is called "Nanyue".

    After the Sui and Tang dynasties, the meanings of the words "Yue" and "Yue" began to differ, the former was mostly used in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Wu-speaking regions, and the latter was mostly used in Lingnan and Guangzhou, and was used as a collective name for Lingnan for a long time. Later, the two Guangxi titles were distinguished, "Yue" specifically refers to Guangdong, and Guangxi is referred to as "Gui".

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    Cantonese has many unique or derived words. It contains nine tones and six tones, retains more of the characteristics of ancient Chinese, has a complete series of characters, and can be expressed entirely in Chinese characters (Cantonese characters), and is the only Chinese language that has been independently studied in foreign universities except Mandarin. At present, Cantonese has the status of an official language in Hong Kong and Macau, and is the fourth most spoken language in Australia, the third most spoken in the United States and Canada, and the second most spoken in New Zealand.

    Cantonese is the mother tongue of the Cantonese people and an important carrier of Cantonese culture. Cantonese is written as "cantonese" in English and "広东语" in Japanese, which is generally called "Cantonese".

    The above content refers to Encyclopedia - Cantonese.

  6. Anonymous users2024-02-02

    Guangzhou dialectRepresentativesCantonese, Cantonese, Nanfanshun and other nouns.

    Guangzhou dialect stands for Cantonese and other nouns! Then in the encyclopedia, Cantonese is spoken by hundreds of millions of people.

    Guangzhou dialect represents Cantonese, Cantonese and other nouns, and then I can't understand Wuyi dialect, Huizhou dialect, Guanbao dialect, Goui dialect, Hakka dialect, Chaoshan dialect and other local dialects in Guangdong Province.

    Mandarin is the lingua franca of our country, it is good to use Mandarin, thank you!

  7. Anonymous users2024-02-01

    Be.

    Cantonese, also known as Cantonese, Cantonese, and vernacular, is a tonal language that belongs to the Chinese dialect of the Sino-Tibetan language family.

    It is widely used in the central and western parts of Guangdong, the central and southern parts of Guangxi, Hong Kong, Macau, and Southeast Asia, as well as in overseas Chinese communities.

  8. Anonymous users2024-01-31

    The differences between Cantonese and Mandarin are as follows.

    1. The syllables are different.

    Cantonese retains a lot of ancient Chinese elements, mostly using monosyllabic words, while Mandarin is mostly two-syllable. Mandarin has the warped tongue sounds zh, ch, sh, and r, while Cantonese does not; Cantonese has nasal finals ending in m, and finals ending in b, d, and g (i.e., incoming rhymes), while Mandarin does not.

    2. The grammar is different.

    The word order is different, Mandarin "I go first" and Cantonese "I go first".

    The virtual words are different, Mandarin "I am reading", Cantonese "I read tight books", etc.

    3. Different cultures.

    Putonghua is a modern standard Chinese with Beijing pronunciation as the standard sound, northern dialect (Mandarin) as the basic dialect, and exemplary modern vernacular writings as the grammatical norms.

    Guangdong has its own unique culture from ancient times to the present, and at the same time, it has been opened to the outside world early and absorbed a large amount of Western culture, making the Cantonese language more diverse, extensive and deep.

    In ancient China, Cantonese was spoken.

    The Nanyue Kingdom, also known as the Nanyue Kingdom (粤氩: naam4-jyut6-gwok3), was a regime located in the Lingnan region of China. At the end of Qin (207 B.C.), Zhao Tuo, the governor of Nanhai County, took advantage of the death of Qin to seal the customs and cut off the road; Three years later, it annexed Guilin County and Xiang County in Lingnan.

    In 204 B.C., the state of Nanyue was formally established, and the self-named "King of Nanyue Wu" was set in Panyu. At its peak, the territory of the Nanyue Kingdom included present-day Guangdong, Guangxi (most of it), Fujian (a small part of China), Hainan, Hong Kong, Macau, and Vietnam (most of the northern and central parts of China).

    The Cantonese dialect has both the pre-Qin Lingnan Nanyue language (ancient Cantonese) and the Central Plains Yayu (ancient Henan dialect). Cantonese has a history of more than 2,200 years since the Qin Dynasty.

  9. Anonymous users2024-01-30

    Cantonese is, of course, Chinese. There are seven major dialects in the Chinese language in China. They are, in order: Northern Dialect, Wu Dialect, Hunan Dialect, Gan Dialect, Hakka Dialect, Southern Min Dialect, Eastern Min Dialect, and Cantonese Dialect.

    Cantonese, also known as Cantonese and Cantonese, commonly known as vernacular, and Tang dialect overseas, is a tonal language of the Sino-Tibetan Chinese family, one of the seven major dialects of Chinese Chinese, and the mother tongue of the Cantonese people of the Han nationality.

    Cantonese originated from ancient Chinese in the north, and after a long period of language exchange, integration and adaptation, it matured in the Tang Dynasty and developed into the Song Dynasty, which is not far from the modern Cantonese. It has a complete nine tones and six tones, and retains more ancient Chinese characteristics.

    Cantonese is widely spoken in Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan, Hong Kong and Macau in Lingnan China, as well as in overseas Chinese communities such as Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia, Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam, Sydney, Melbourne and Christmas Island in Australia, New York and San Francisco in the United States, Vancouver and Toronto in Canada. Cantonese is currently spoken by about 100 million people worldwide.

  10. Anonymous users2024-01-29

    Chinese, also known as Chinese, Chinese, other names include Mandarin, Chinese, Chinese, Mandarin, Tang, Chinese, as well as Tang dialect, Chinese and other common names. Chinese belongs to the Sino-Tibetan language family of analytic languages and has tones. The Chinese writing system Chinese characters are a kind of phonetic script, which also has a certain phonetic function.

    Chinese consists of two parts: written and spoken. Ancient written Chinese is called classical Chinese, and modern written Chinese generally refers to modern standard Chinese. There are many dialects in modern Chinese, and some dialects differ greatly from each other's spoken languages, while the written language is relatively unified.

    Chinese is a language family that includes seven major dialects, of which Mandarin and Cantonese are the two most widely spoken Han languages in the world. Chinese belongs to the Sino-Tibetan language family, and Mandarin is the lingua franca in this language family. In addition to Chinese mainland, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, Macao Special Administrative Region and Taiwan, Mandarin is also distributed in the Republic of Singapore, Malaysia and other countries.

    There are about 1.4 billion people who can speak Mandarin (30 million people as a second language). Mandarin is one of the official working languages of China recognized by the United Nations.

  11. Anonymous users2024-01-28

    Cantonese, also known as Cantonese, Cantonese, and Tang dialects, commonly known as "vernacular", is a tonal language in the Sino-Tibetan language family. Cantonese is the mother tongue of the Han Cantonese people, an important carrier of Cantonese culture, and one of the basic symbolic cultural identities of the Cantonese people. Cantonese has a complete set of nine tones and six tones, retaining more Middle Chinese features.

    It has a well-developed series of characters and can be expressed entirely in Chinese characters, and is the only Chinese language that has been independently studied in foreign universities other than Mandarin.

  12. Anonymous users2024-01-27

    Cantonese, also known as Cantonese and Cantonese, commonly known as vernacular, and Tang dialect overseas, is a tonal language of the Sino-Tibetan Chinese family, one of the seven major dialects of China, and the mother tongue of the Cantonese people of the Han nationality. Cantonese contains nine tones and six tones, retains more of the characteristics of ancient Chinese, has a complete series of characters, can be fully expressed in Chinese characters, and is the only Chinese language that has been independently studied in foreign universities except Mandarin. Cantonese is the official language of Hong Kong and Macau, and is the fourth most spoken language in Australia, the third most spoken in the United States and Canada, and the second most spoken in New Zealand.

  13. Anonymous users2024-01-26

    Cantonese is also a Chinese language family, also called Cantonese and vernacular, which is mainly popular in Guangdong, Guangxi, Hong Kong, and Macao, and most overseas Chinese also speak Cantonese. He retains a large number of pronunciations of ancient Chinese, and is the second most common dialect of Chinese after Puyu.

  14. Anonymous users2024-01-25

    Cantonese certainly belongs to the Chinese language, and the definition of Chinese is the language of the Han people, and Cantonese is only one of its branches.

  15. Anonymous users2024-01-24

    Speaking of Cantonese, it is often said that "Cantonese is a living fossil of ancient Chinese".

    As one of the seven major dialects of Chinese, Cantonese retains many characteristics of ancient Chinese and can be called one of the living fossils of ancient Chinese. Zhu Xi of the Southern Song Dynasty commented in "Zhuzi's Language": "Because there are many false voices in the Quartet, but the people of Guangzhong speak with good voices, and they are still upright in the middle of the world."

    It can be seen that as early as the Southern Song Dynasty, Guangdong was already a place where the pronunciation was relatively "positive".

    So, in what ways does Cantonese resemble ancient Chinese?

    Some people say that Cantonese has an inversion, saying "I go first" instead of saying "I go first", but this obviously misses the point. This article will take you to have a general understanding, in what ways is Cantonese close to "ancient Chinese"?

    "Ancient Chinese" refers to the "Middle Chinese" represented by the Tang and Song dynasties. Ancient and modern poets wrote metrical poems and lyrics based on the language of the time.

  16. Anonymous users2024-01-23

    Cantonese is Chinese, it is a kind of dialect, there are hundreds of Chinese dialects, but we now popularize Mandarin, which is conducive to communication.

  17. Anonymous users2024-01-22

    What is Chinese, that is, words that express meaning in Chinese characters. Cantonese is, of course, Chinese, but the accent is different from Mandarin.

  18. Anonymous users2024-01-21

    It is also Chinese, but its origin is different, just like in our country, where there are many regions with different languages, the same is Chinese, but the words spoken are different

  19. Anonymous users2024-01-20

    Of course, it's Chinese, but Chinese includes Mandarin, and there are many dialects, and Cantonese is the Cantonese dialect.

  20. Anonymous users2024-01-19

    Chinese (Chinese) is divided into standard language and dialect, and its standard language is Mandarin Chinese, which is the common language of the Han nationality after standardization and the national common language of China. Modern Chinese dialects can generally be divided into: Mandarin dialect, Wu dialect, Hunan dialect, Hakka dialect, Min dialect, Cantonese dialect, Jiangxi dialect, etc.

  21. Anonymous users2024-01-18

    It's Chinese. Cantonese speakers are Han Chinese, do you still need to ask? Since Qin Shi Huang, Cantonese has a history of more than 2,000 years, much longer than Dadu (Beijing). Tracing back to the origin, Hakka dialect originated from ancient Chu language, Chaoshan dialect originated from ancient Qi language, and Cantonese dialect originated from ancient Qin language.

  22. Anonymous users2024-01-17

    Of course, Cantonese belongs to the Cantonese dialect and is a type of Chinese.

  23. Anonymous users2024-01-16

    It should be Chinese, but there is a good chance that it is not Chinese!!

  24. Anonymous users2024-01-15

    Of course it's Chinese, which belongs to the language we use, and of course it belongs to a part of Chinese.

  25. Anonymous users2024-01-14

    Cantonese is also a type of Chinese, but it is only a minority language.

  26. Anonymous users2024-01-13

    Cantonese is a local dialect of Guangdong Province, including Hong Kong, and is not Mandarin in China.

  27. Anonymous users2024-01-12

    Yes, it is Chinese, the dialect of the Liangguang region.

  28. Anonymous users2024-01-11

    Chinese: Chinese, that is, the language of the Han nationality, is the common language of China, one of the international common languages, belonging to the Sino-Tibetan language family, and Tibetan, Zhuang, Dai, Kam, Li, Yi, Miao, Yao in China, and Thai, Burmese outside China are all related languages.

    The number of people who speak Chinese in the world is at least 1.5 billion, more than 20% of the world's total population, and it is the official language of China and Singapore, and is also one of the six working languages of the United Nations.

    Cantonese: Cantonese, also known as Cantonese and Cantonese, commonly known as vernacular, and Tang dialect overseas, is a tonal language of the Tibetan Chinese family, one of the seven major dialects of China, and the mother tongue of the Cantonese people of the Han nationality.

    Cantonese originated from the ancient Central Plains dialect and has a complete nine tones and six tones, which perfectly retains the characteristics of ancient Chinese. Cantonese is widely spoken in Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan, Hong Kong, Macau, North America, the United Kingdom, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Christmas Island, and Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Vietnam in Southeast Asia.

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