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Putonghua vs Cantonese - What's the difference?

putonghua | cantonese |

As nouns the difference between putonghua and cantonese

is that putonghua is while cantonese is cantonese.

As an adjective cantonese is

cantonese.

putonghua

English

(Putonghua)

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • Putonghua (); the official language of the People's Republic of China; the common national speech of Han nationality using Beijing pronunciation as the standard pronunciation, using Beijing speech as the basic dialect, and using the model writing of the modern vernacular prose as the norm of grammar, is called Putonghua

    • See also

    * Standard Chinese * Standard Mandarin * Standard Spoken Chinese * Mandarin * Mandarin Chinese * Guoyu * Huayu * Hanyu * Zhongwen

    cantonese

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Relating to Canton.
  • Relating to Cantonese people.
  • Relating to Cantonese language.
  • Relating to Cantonese food/cuisine.

    • Noun

    (Cantonese)
  • (countable) An inhabitant of Canton; a person of Canton descent.

    • Proper noun

    (wikipedia Cantonese) (en proper noun)
  • (uncountable) A Chinese language mainly spoken in the south-eastern part of Mainland China, Guangdong (Canton), Hong Kong, Macau, by the Chinese minorities in Southeast Asia and by many overseas Chinese worldwide.
  • A dialect of the Cantonese language, spoken in Guangzhou (Canton), Hong Kong, Macau, and treated as the standard dialect of the Cantonese language

    • Synonyms

    * (language) Yue Chinese / Yue , Cantonese language , Cantonese dialect * (dialect) Cantonese dialect , Cantonese language

    Hyponyms

    (language) * Cantonese / Cantonese dialect (the dialect of Cantonese language treated as standard) * Hoisanese / Toisanese / Taishanese * Hong Kong Cantonese (the dialect spoken in Hong Kong and Macau)

    See also

    * (yue) * Language list * Guangdong * Guangzhou

    External links

    * * English invariant nouns