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Guangzhouhua
Cantonese ( zh, t=廣東話, s=广东话, first=t, cy=Gwóngdūng wá) is a language within the Varieties of Chinese, Chinese (Sinitic) branch of the Sino-Tibetan languages originating from the city of Guangzhou (historically known as Canton) and its surrounding area in South Central China, Southeastern China. It is the traditional prestige variety of the Yue Chinese dialect group, which has over 80 million native speakers. While the term ''Cantonese'' specifically refers to the prestige variety, it is often used to refer to the entire Yue subgroup of Chinese, including related but largely mutually unintelligible languages and dialects such as Taishanese. Cantonese is viewed as a vital and inseparable part of the cultural identity for its Cantonese people, native speakers across large swaths of Liangguang, Southeastern China, Hong Kong and Macau, as well as in Overseas Chinese, overseas communities. In mainland China, it is the ''lingua franca'' of the province of Guangdong (bein ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Xiguan Dialect
The Xiguan accent () or Xiguan dialect (), is a sub-dialect of the Guangzhou dialect of Cantonese, spoken in Xiguan. Cantonese takes Guangzhou dialect as its standard and Guangzhou dialect once took Xiguan as its standard. With an increasing number of outsiders moving in, Xiguan dialect can only be heard among the older population and it is near extinction. The ''Guangzhouhua Zidian'' () includes Xiguan alongside Nanhai and Hong Kong. Speakers People living in Xiguan have generally lost a Xiguan accent; what they are actually speaking with is the relaxed pronunciation () of Xiguan Dialect. Differences with downtown accent Differences in the pronunciation of some characters Confusion of consonants ''n'' & ''l'' Due to Xiguan's near geographical position to Nanhai, both accents spoken in Xiguan and Nanhai feature n-l merger, in which /n/ and /l/ are merged into /l/. However, the feature is less prominent in the Xiguan accent. Consonant ''ng'' Speakers of Xiguan A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
