廣東話（粵語）｜cANTONESE (yUE)

廣東話（粵語）｜cANTONESE (yUE)

香港人說粵語家族中的廣東話。
Hongkongers speak Cantonese which is a dialect of *Yue Family.

長話短說，說廣東話和國語，就如說「標準德文」和「瑞士德文」一樣，只是廣東話和國語是獨立，屬於完全不同的語言家族的。及，廣東話不是國語的方言，而是粵語的方言。因此，香港的中文有標準中文（學校教授，主要書寫）和廣東話（生活實用，主要談話）。除非會說廣東話，否則只懂標準中文的話是不能理解廣東話的。
So explain in short, speaking Cantonese and Mandarin, just like speaking “Standard German” and “Swiss German”，but Cantonese and Mandarin are independent, belonging to completely different language families. And Cantonese is not the dialect of Mandarin, but the dialect of Yue. Therefore, Hongkong’s Chinese could be in “Standard Chinese” (School learning, mainly for writing) and “Cantonese” (Living language, mainly for speaking). In this case, “Standard Chinese” user will not be able to understand Hongkongers’ “Cantonese”.

在下不是中國文學或翻譯專家，只是十分喜歡華夏文化而已，故在此隨意分享一點，歡迎學術交流。
同時，假設懂中文的華友可能對相關旳歷史及背景已有不同程度的了解，所以會偏向非華人的對象稍作多點介紹。
I am not an expert on Chinese literature or professional translation, just a super Great Chinese culture lover only and would love to share a bit here randomly, welcome for academic exchange.
As people can google a lot of info about Cantonese on internet, such as Wiki, universities, related database and so on, I will not open big topics here. However, feedback are welcome.

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*Yue is a primary branch of Chinese spoken in southern China, particularly the provinces of Guangdong and Guangxi. The name Cantonese is often used, but linguists prefer to reserve that name for the Yue dialect of Guangzhou (Canton) and Hong Kong, which is the prestige dialect. (Wiki)

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