Cantonese
E25452
Cantonese is a major Chinese language variety spoken primarily in Guangdong province, Hong Kong, Macau, and among overseas Chinese communities worldwide.
Observed surface forms (8)
| Surface form | As subject | As object |
|---|---|---|
| Cantonese Pinyin | 0 | 1 |
| Cantonese Wikinews | 0 | 1 |
| Cantonese people | 0 | 1 |
| Guangzhou Cantonese | 0 | 1 |
| Hong Kong Cantonese | 0 | 1 |
| Macanese Cantonese | 0 | 1 |
| Taishanese Chinese | 0 | 1 |
| Written Cantonese | 0 | 1 |
Statements (68)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Chinese language variety
→
Sinitic language → spoken language → |
| closelyRelatedTo |
Taishanese
→
Yuehai dialects → |
| family | Sino-Tibetan languages → |
| hasDialect |
Cantonese
self-linksurface differs
→
surface form:
Guangzhou Cantonese
Cantonese self-linksurface differs →
surface form:
Hong Kong Cantonese
Cantonese self-linksurface differs →
surface form:
Macanese Cantonese
Taishanese → |
| hasDistinctGrammarFrom |
Standard Chinese
→
surface form:
Standard Mandarin
|
| hasDistinctVocabularyFrom |
Standard Chinese
→
surface form:
Standard Mandarin
|
| hasLoanwordsFrom |
English
→
Japanese → Portuguese language →
surface form:
Portuguese
|
| hasOnlinePresence | widely used on social media → |
| hasPhonemicTones | yes → |
| hasRomanizationStandard |
Hong Kong Government Cantonese Romanization
→
Yale Cantonese →
surface form:
Jyutping
Yale Cantonese → |
| historicalAncestor | Middle Chinese → |
| isPartOf | Yue Chinese → |
| languageCodeISO639-1 | zh (macrolanguage) → |
| languageCodeISO639-2 | yue → |
| languageCodeISO639-3 | yue → |
| lexicalInfluenceOn | Hong Kong English → |
| mutualIntelligibilityWith | low with Mandarin → |
| numberOfTones | 6 to 9 depending on analysis → |
| officialStatus |
official language of Hong Kong
→
official language of Macau → |
| phonologicalFeature |
preservation of entering tones
→
rich inventory of final consonants → |
| primaryRegion |
Guangdong Province
→
surface form:
Guangdong province
Hong Kong, China →
surface form:
Hong Kong
Macau → |
| scriptDirection | left-to-right → |
| spokenIn |
Australia
→
Canada → Guangxi Province →
surface form:
Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region
Guangzhou → Malaysia → Pearl River Delta → Singapore → Southeast Asia → United Kingdom → United States of America →
surface form:
United States
Viet Nam →
surface form:
Vietnam
overseas Chinese communities → |
| standardVarietyCenter |
Guangzhou
→
Hong Kong, China →
surface form:
Hong Kong
|
| subfamily | Sinitic languages → |
| subgroup | Yue Chinese → |
| usedAsLinguaFrancaIn | Pearl River Delta → |
| usedIn |
Cantopop
→
Hong Kong cinema → Hong Kong television → Macau media → |
| usedInCourts | language of court proceedings in Hong Kong → |
| usedInEducation | medium of instruction in many Hong Kong schools → |
| usedInGovernment | working language of Hong Kong government → |
| usesColloquialCharacters | yes → |
| writingStandard | no single fully standardized written colloquial form → |
| writingSystem |
Cantonese
self-linksurface differs
→
surface form:
Cantonese Pinyin
Chinese characters → Jyutping romanization → Traditional Chinese characters → Cantonese self-linksurface differs →
surface form:
Written Cantonese
Yale romanization → |
Referenced by (30)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Cantonese people
this entity surface form:
Guangzhou Cantonese
this entity surface form:
Hong Kong Cantonese
this entity surface form:
Macanese Cantonese
this entity surface form:
Cantonese Wikinews
this entity surface form:
Taishanese Chinese
subject surface form:
Eastern China
subject surface form:
Chinatown, San Francisco
subject surface form:
Hong Kong
this entity surface form:
Written Cantonese
this entity surface form:
Cantonese Pinyin