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Canton Orchid Garden

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Canton Orchid Garden
Canton Orchid Garden
Canton Orchid Garden
Canton Orchid Garden
Canton Orchid Garden
Canton Orchid Garden
Canton Orchid Garden
Canton Orchid Garden
Canton Orchid Garden
Canton Orchid Garden
Canton Orchid Garden
Canton Orchid Garden
Canton Orchid Garden
Canton Orchid Garden
Canton Orchid Garden
Phone:
+86 20 8667 7255

Address:
Jiefang Bei Lu, Guangzhou, China

Cantonese is a variety of Chinese spoken in the city of Guangzhou and its surrounding area in southeastern China. It is the traditional prestige variety and standard form of Yue Chinese, one of the major subgroups of Chinese. In mainland China, it is the lingua franca of the province of Guangdong and neighbouring areas such as Guangxi. It is the dominant and official language of Hong Kong and Macau. Cantonese is also widely spoken amongst overseas Chinese in Southeast Asia and throughout the Western world. While the term Cantonese specifically refers to the prestige variety, it is often used in a broader sense for the entire Yue subgroup of Chinese, including related but largely mutually unintelligible languages and dialects such as Taishanese. When Cantonese and the closely related Yuehai dialects are classified together, there are about 80 million total speakers. Cantonese is viewed as a vital and inseparable part of the cultural identity for its native speakers across large swaths of southeastern China, Hong Kong and Macau, as well as in overseas communities. Although Cantonese shares some vocabulary with Mandarin, the two varieties are mutually unintelligible because of differences in pronunciation, grammar and lexicon. Sentence structure, in particular the placement of verbs, sometimes differs between the two varieties. A notable difference between Cantonese and Mandarin is how the spoken word is written; both can be recorded verbatim, but very few Cantonese speakers are knowledgeable in the full Cantonese written vocabulary, so a non-verbatim formalized written form is adopted, which is more akin to the Mandarin written form. This results in the situation in which a Cantonese and a Mandarin text may look similar but are pronounced differently. Additionally, for the necessary verbatim use of auxiliary words, for example in online chatting and arrest records, people use specific coinage characters for the same pronunciation which obey the creating rule of Mandarin.
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