Cantonese (linguistics)

:This article is on all of the Cantonese (Yuet) dialects. For the dialect of Guangzhou and Hong Kong, see Standard Cantonese.

External links

Dictionaries

Dictionaries which include Spoken Cantonese Entries

• A Comparative Database of Modern Chinese and Cantonese: A Cantonese?Chinese Dictionary at the Chinese University of Hong Kong: This is one of the few online sites with an extensive database of spoken Cantonese terms and phrases on the Internet. Almost exclusively in Chinese, though.
• CantoDict: A Cantonese-English Dictionary at Sheik's Cantonese Forum: This dictionary has both spoken and written Cantonese entries and its database is still growing
• Database of Cantonese Common Words: In Japanese and English; requires Japanese font

Character-Only Cantonese Pronunciation Dictionaries

• The Chinese University of Hong Kong Research Centre for Humanities Computing: Chinese Character Database: With Word-formations Phonologically Disambiguated According to the Cantonese Dialect: A vast Chinese character database of over 13,000 characters with audio pronunciations in Cantonese. This site is viewable in Chinese and English. You can choose from seven transcription schemes to view character pronunciations. By default, the site is displayed in Chinese and uses the LSHK jyutping transcription scheme. To view the site in English and/or use a different transcription scheme, a cookies enabled browser is required. For each character you can find Cantonese pronunciations, Mandarin pronunciations, character ranking/frequency, Big5 encoding number, Unicode number, cangjie (chongkit) input code, and which radical the character can be found under using a traditional Chinese dictionary.
• Cantonese Talking Syllabary: in Chinese; require Big5 font
• Chinese Character Dictionary
• MDBG free online Chinese-English dictionary: An online Chinese English dictionary supporting both Cantonese and Mandarin. (You need to click the compound word to get the individual Cantonese readings of each character; no direct Cantonese phrase pronunciation guide at the moment.) Standard Chinese words only. Vernacular Cantonese not supported

Other Links

• Learn Cantonese!: Great site with basic vocabulary and phonetics
• 粵語拼盤: Learning the phonetic system of Cantonese
• Sheik's Cantonese Forum: a popular Cantonese Forum for English-speaking learners.
• China West Exchange: Free Cantonese and Mandarin lessons.
• Ethnologue report on Cantonese
• Hong Kong Government Book Store: The Hong Kong Government Publications Office has a series of 9 books containing the complete language course used to train non-native speaking civil servants in Cantonese
• Hong Kong Government site on the HK Supplementary Character Set (HKSCS)
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