A map reveals the fascinating amount of languages spoken in China. From Mandarin, Cantonese, Tibetan, to Mongolian and Korean, China is definitely one of the world's countries with the most ...

And in October 2022, China’s short-video platform Douyin pulled the plug on livestreamers using Cantonese for using “unrecognizable language.” China has been, for years, trying to ...

In nearby Cantonese-speaking Hong Kong, anti-government demonstrators in 2019 often used Cantonese wordplay both for protest slogans and to guard against potential surveillance by mainland Chinese ...

But China is an extremely linguistically diverse country. Beyond the dozens of languages spoken by China’s indigenous minority groups, such as Mongolian, Uyghur, and Tibetan, the country is also home ...

However, when it comes to audio languages, it appears that only Mandarin, China's official language, is taken into consideration, while neglecting Cantonese, the second most commonly spoken ...

On the other hand, other southern Chinese languages, particularly Cantonese, are considered more authentic. The myth about Cantonese is that the language was spoken in Tang Dynasty and preserved in ...

In Olomouc, a city that has a population of just 100,000 and very few Cantonese speakers, it’s hard for students to practise their language skills in an everyday setting.

But today in the city that’s drawn Cantonese speakers from South China for over 150 years, there’s fear that political and social upheaval are diminishing a language that is a cultural touchstone.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Three decades ago, finding opportunities to learn Cantonese in San Francisco wasn't hard. But today in the city that's drawn Cantonese speakers from South China for over 150 ...