Cantonese

variety of Yue Chinese spoken in Guangzhou, Hong Kong, and Macau
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Cantonese

Summary

Cantonese is a natural language[1]. Cantonese ranks in the top 3% of natural_language entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,390 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Cantonese is in the country of Brunei[3].
  • Cantonese is in the country of People's Republic of China[4].
  • Cantonese is in the country of Malaysia[5].
  • Cantonese's video is recorded as 字言字語 手遊"課金" 曾鈺成 am730.webm[6].
  • Cantonese's image is recorded as Guangdonghua-vector.svg[7].
  • Cantonese's instance of is recorded as natural language[8].
  • Cantonese's instance of is recorded as modern language[9].
  • Cantonese's audio is recorded as Zh-yue-香港語言學學會粵語拼音方案.ogg[10].
  • Cantonese's audio is recorded as Brian Wong - voice - cantonese.flac[11].
  • Cantonese's ISO 639-6 code is recorded as yyef[12].
  • Cantonese's ISO 639-6 code is recorded as guzh[13].
  • Cantonese's GND ID is recorded as 4197216-8[14].
  • Cantonese's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85019816[15].
  • Cantonese's subclass of is recorded as Yuehai Yue[16].
  • Cantonese's subclass of is recorded as varieties of Chinese[17].
  • Cantonese's writing system is recorded as written Cantonese[18].
  • Cantonese's writing system is recorded as Cantonese Braille[19].
  • Cantonese's writing system is recorded as Chinese characters[20].
  • Cantonese's NDL Authority ID is recorded as 001117811[21].
  • Cantonese's Commons category is recorded as Cantonese language[22].
  • Cantonese's Wikimedia language code is recorded as zh-yue[23].
  • Cantonese's Wikimedia language code is recorded as yue[24].
  • Cantonese's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0459q4[25].
  • Cantonese's NL CR AUT ID is recorded as ph903812[26].
  • Cantonese's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Cantonese language[27].

Why It Matters

Cantonese ranks in the top 3% of natural_language entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,390 views/month).[2] Cantonese has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] Cantonese is known by 77 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

Cantonese has been cited as an influence by Singlish[30], a creole[31], in Singapore[32].

FAQs

Who did Cantonese influence?

Cantonese has been cited as an influence by Singlish[30].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [6] . wikidata.org.
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  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
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  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . Chinese Wikiversity. wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
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  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [30] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [31] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [32] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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