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”.
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