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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] Cantonese and Mandarin are not different dialects, but different languages used in the same country. Sort of like Oroma and Amharic, or Farsi and Arabic, or French Canadian and English. Same countries with citizens speaking two different languages. People keep saying Chinese dialects, but it is not Chinese dialects, but languages spoke in China. [/quote][/quote] I've studied Arabic and Farsi, and my spouse speaks Cantonese. Things are not that cut and dried. Cantonese and Mandarin and written almost the same way, and are virtually identical grammatically. Cantonese is essentially between a language and a dialect when compared to Mandarin. It's called both the Cantonese language and the Yue dialect of Chinese. Wikipedia explains it well: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantonese[/quote]
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