chinese language cantonese vs mandarin

PDF	Quantitative Comparative Syntax on the Cantonese-Mandarin 18 sept 2017 · Cantonese and Mandarin are similar languages in most major respects Universal Dependencies for Mandarin Chinese ” The 12th Workshop on Asian

PDF	Corpus-based learning of Cantonese for Mandarin speakers Abstract This paper reports our experience in using a parallel corpus to teach Cantonese a variety of Chinese spoken in Hong Kong as a second language

PDF	Dialect MT: A Case Study between Cantonese and Mandarin Automatic Machine Translation (MT) between different languages such as English Chinese and Japanese has been an attractive but extremely difficult research

PDF	The Mutual Intelligibility in Phonological and Lexical Aspects Some people believe that Shanghainese has only two live tones while Cantonese and Mandarin are contour tonal languages Standard Cantonese is originated from

PDF	Cantonese and Mandarin: Different Dialects or Different Languages? speakers of Cantonese and Mandarin will tell you that they speak the same language However if one speaker knows only Cantonese and the other only

PDF	Cantonese vs Mandarin: A summary 21 oct 2015 · The large geographical area that is referred to as 'China'1 is home to many languages and dialects Most of these languages

Can Cantonese speakers understand Mandarin?
They are both tonal languages, though the tones are different and they are not mutually intelligible.
As such, they cannot really be referred to as dialects because a Cantonese speaker cannot understand a Mandarin speaker and vice versa.
In fact, this is the case with many of China's “dialects”.
Which language is better to learn Mandarin or Cantonese?
Mandarin is easier to learn
Cantonese is seen to be more difficult because it has from 6 to 9 tones, each of which signify different things (while Mandarin only has 4 tones).
In addition, because of its greater prevalence, it is easier to find Mandarin study materials than Cantonese study materials.
How different is Mandarin Chinese from Cantonese?
While they are both tonal languages, meaning that one word has many meanings depending on the pronunciation and intonation, Mandarin has only four tones per sound, while Cantonese has at least six (and can have up to nine).
The official dialect of China is Mandarin, also call “Putonghua”.
More than 70% of the Chinese population speaks Mandarin, but there are also several other major dialects in use in China: Yue (Cantonese), Xiang (Hunanese), Min dialect, Gan dialect, Wu dialect, and Kejia or Hakka dialect.

PDF	Dialect MT: A Case Study between Cantonese and Mandarin Automatic Machine Translation (MT) between different languages such as English

PDF	Dialect MT: A Case Study between Cantonese and Mandarin Automatic Machine Translation (MT) between different languages such as English

PDF	Cantonese and Mandarin: Different Dialects or Different Languages? They will almost certainly insist that they speak different dialects of Chinese not different languages. [Wardhaugh

PDF	Register-sensitive Translation: A Case Study of Mandarin and This paper describes an approach for translating between Chinese dialects focusing on Mandarin as the source language and Cantonese as the target language.

PDF	Tone perception in Far Eastern languages - Jack Gandour of tone languages versus a nontone language Thai listeners versus. Chinese

PDF	CPDEP-Cantonese.pdf Although Mandarin (or putonghua) is the standard and official language in mainland China it has only been around for about 700 or 800 years

PDF	A final question: is Hokkien a “language” or a “dialect”? The Yiddish In Mandarin the indirect object comes before the direct object

PDF	Toward a Parallel Corpus of Spoken Cantonese and Written Chinese Nob 8 2011 The corpus contains. 4

PDF	Who are “Chinese” Language Speakers in the United States? Less than 5% of. Chinese speakers report Cantonese in the majority of the Midwest and southern states. Mandarin speakers in contrast

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PDF	Dialect MT: A Case Study between Cantonese and Mandarin general and Cantonese-Mandarin MT in particular Mandarin different languages, such as English, Chinese Translation or interpretation is not necessarily

PDF	Cantonese and Mandarin: Different Dialects or Different Languages? They will almost certainly insist that they speak different dialects of Chinese, not different languages [Wardhaugh, R (2008, 6th ed ) An Introduction to

PDF	Corpus-based learning of Cantonese for Mandarin speakers - ERIC Cantonese, a variety of Chinese spoken in Hong Kong, as a second language Keywords: parallel corpus, language acquisition, Cantonese, Mandarin One can for example search sentences using Cantonese or Mandarin keywords, and

PDF	Comparisons on the Cantonese-English Language Use of - CORE to differences in school programs that impose monolingual or bilingual learning environments languages: Chinese (the written form of Cantonese) and English (see Appendix A) verbs: A comparison of English, Italian, and Mandarin

PDF	CANTONESE : LANGUAGE OR DIALECT? - HKU Scholars Hub hand, the various languages spoken in China, such as Mandarin and Cantonese are mutually unintelligible, but are referred to as dialects because they are

PDF	1 Running head: EVALUATING MANDARIN AND CANTONESE Evaluating the Mandarin-taught Chinese class and Cantonese-taught Chinese class in terms two languages as the medium of instruction in Chinese class in terms of the literacy of Cantonese or Mandarin-Chinese education Results

PDF	The Cantonese Linguicide: A Study of Prospective Language Death Hong Kong from Cantonese to Mandarin under political and economic pressure ways have the citizens of Hong Kong adhered or distanced themselves The Yue dialect (粵語) is one of many dialects in the Chinese language Yue parents