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Cantonese

DEFINITIONS OF: Cantonese

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n the dialect of Chinese spoken in Canton and neighboring provinces and in Hong Kong and elsewhere outside China

Synonyms:
Cantonese dialect, Yue, Yue dialect
Type of:
Chinese
any of the Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in China; regarded as dialects of a single language (even though they are mutually unintelligible) because they share an ideographic writing system
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