Definition of cantonese Cantonese

/kæˌntʌniˈz/ - [kantuneez] - Can•ton•ese

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What does cantonese mean?

Noun
cantonese - the dialect of Chinese spoken in Canton and neighboring provinces and in Hong Kong and elsewhere outside China
		Yue, Yue dialect, Cantonese, Cantonese dialect

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cantonese
A Chinese language mainly spoken in the south-eastern part of Mainland China.

Cantonese (Jyutping:Gwong Dung Waa；Pinyin: Guangdonghua) or Yue is an Asian dialect spoken by the people of Guangdong, China, Hong Kong, Macau, Malaysia and some parts of Singapore, as well as places with a significant amount of overseas Chinese originating from Cantonese-speaking parts of China, such as Melbourne. It is also the most common dialect of overseas Chinese in Southeast Asia and North America. An estimated 100,000,000 people speak Cantonese. It is a tonal language with 6 kinds of tones.

Cantonese is from the Sino-Tibetan family of languages.