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Cantonese dialect

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Noun1.Cantonese dialect - the dialect of Chinese spoken in Canton and neighboring provinces and in Hong Kong and elsewhere outside China
Cantonese, Yue, Yue dialect
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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Languages most difficult to get translated in Superior Court are Tagalog, Samoan and the Mandarin and Cantonese dialects of Chinese, Becerra said.
Lost in the translation: shortage of interpreters causes delays in ... by Bronstad, Amanda / Los Angeles Business Journal
She did not even speak the local Cantonese dialect when she began appearing in Hong Kong movies.
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Large numbers of Hong Kongers, who traditionally speak Cantonese dialect, are brushing up their Mandarin for post-1997 PRC rule.
The new Mandarins by Pease, Robert M. / The National Interest
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