cantonese language or dialect

Why Cantonese is a dialect?
Cantonese (or Yue) and Mandarin represent two varieties of Chinese.
Despite sometimes being referred to as dialects, Cantonese and Mandarin are not mutually intelligible and have differences in sound, structure, and grammar just like many other languages.
Linguistically Cantonese is considered it's own language.
Politically it is considered a dialect.

Is Cantonese a language Recognised by UN?

Answer and Explanation: The United Nations does not officially recognize languages.
It does, however, have five working languages: English, French, Arabic, Russian, and Mandarin.

Why isn't Cantonese the official language?

It's clear that a lot more people in China natively speak Mandarin than Cantonese.
Cantonese lost by two votes when selecting the national dialect and that was that.
Mandarin is easier to learn.

Cantonese is a language, not a dialect. but: When Cantonese is used more widely and known by more people, it can be defined as a language. Problem: With the promotion of Mandarin in Guangdong , the use of Cantonese is on the decrease, which is bad for the inheritance of Cantonese.

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PDF	Languages and Dialects in China 5 per cent. of the people speak non-Chinese languages. Within China pr the dialects of Chinese may be divided into roughly nine main groups. O. Cantonese

PDF	Language or Dialect—or Topolect? A Comparison of the Attitudes of This study reports on a comparative survey of three groups of Chinese: 53 Hong Kong. Cantonese speakers 18 Mainland Chinese Cantonese speakers

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PDF	Dialect MT: A Case Study between Cantonese and Mandarin High quality machine translation between two languages requires deep understanding of the intended meaning of the source language sentences which in turn.

PDF	Language Attitudes in Guangzhou China Here the local Cantonese dialect coexists with the national "common both stretches the language is Putonghua (standard Mandarin Chinese)

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Language or Dialect—or Topolect? - Sino-Platonic Papers

It was found that the Putonghua speakers held more 'classic' views, the majority seeing Cantonese as a dialect In contrast, only just over half the Hong Kongers and two-fifths the Mainland Cantonese speakers considered it clearly a dialect, while one-third of all respondents favoured a mid-point classification

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

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