Cantonese

Cantonese generally refers to people or things associated with Guangdong Province, Hong Kong or Macau in China.

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• Cantonese people: people residing in, or with ancestry in, Guangdong and environs
• Many people of Cantonese descent reside in Canada, Australia, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam, UK, Ireland and the United States, and other places, part of the Chinese overseas diaspora.
• The Cantonese language: the native speech of many Cantonese people and residents of Guandong, Hong Kong, Macau, and other Chinese communities in China and elsewhere, including a large proportion of overseas Chinese. (Considered a language mainly by non-Chinese scholars, based on intelligibility, or a dialect mainly by Chinese scholars, and in Western popular speech, based on writing standard and cultural-historical factors)
• The Cantonese language/dialect, broadly, is the speech originally developed among populations of Guangdong and environs.
• Standard Cantonese is the prestige and mainstream (sub)dialect of Cantonese, historically based on that of Guangzhou, also usually simply called Cantonese.
• Cantonese includes other (sub)dialects, such as Taishan dialect or Waitau.
• Cantonese cuisine: cuisine of the style historically popularized in Guangzhou, or broadly, among Chinese communities abroad with origins in Guangdong.
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