Cantonese people (Chinese: 廣東人, Simplified Chinese: 广东人, Jyutping: gwong2 dung1 yan4), broadly speaking, are persons originating from the present-day Guangdong province in southern China. A more narrow definition of 廣東人 based on a sociolinguistics and culture perspectives excludes groups that do not speak Cantonese (Yue) as a primary languauge and speak other languages native to Guangdong, such as Hakka, Teochiu (a variant of the Min Nan group). However, this sociolinguistic and cultural definition will often also in ...

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Punti has become a commonly used word in Hong Kong law courts and other authorities such as the police; it is a transliteration of Cantonese 'Boon Dei' meaning 'local'. When a defendant is using 'Punti' in court, that means he elects to use Cantonese as the language in trial instead of English. Despite the reference of "Punti" in this context means nothing much more than "Cantonese" as a spoken language, there are political and practical reasons of not usi ...

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The Mongolian conquest of the Song Dynasty pushed even more Han Chinese refugees into the area including the descendants of the Chinese patriotic leader Wen Tianxiang. The "Great Five Clans" — the Hau (候), Tang (鄧), Pang (彭), Liu (廖), and Man (文) — were among the earliest recorded familial settlers of Hong Kong. Despite the immigration and light development of agriculture, the area was still relatively barren and had ...

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

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From the ninth century BC, two northern Yue peoples, the Gou-Wu and Yu-Yue, were increasingly influenced by their Chinese neighbours to their north. These two states were based in the areas of southern Jiangsu and northern Zhejiang respectively. Their aristocratic elite learnt the written Chinese language, adopted Chinese political institutions and military technology. Traditional accounts attribute the cultural change to the Grand Earl of Wu (吴太伯), a Zhou prince who had fled to the south. The marshy lands of the south gave Gou-Wu and ...

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In ancient times, the Chinese referred to the peoples to their south collectively as the Yue. Historical texts often refer to the Hundred Yue tribes (Chinese: 百越; Hanyu Pinyin: bǎi yuè; Vietnamese: Bách Việt). Historian Lo Hsiang-lin has suggested that these peoples shared a common ancestry with the Xia. There is little evidence, however, that the Yue peoples held any common identity. The "Treatise of Geography" in Han Shu ...

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The fall of the Han Dynasty and the succeeding period of division speeded up the process of sinification. Periods of instability and war in northern China, such as the Northern and Southern Dynasties and during the Song Dynasty led to mass migrations of Chinese. Intermarriage and cross-cultural dialogue has led to a mixture of Chinese and non-Chinese peoples in the south. By the Tang Dynasty, the term "Yue" had largely become a regional designation rather than a cultural one. A state in modern Zhejiang province during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period, for example, called itself "Wu-Yue". Likewise, t ...

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The Cantonese language is one of the major divisions of spoken Chinese. In the native areas of Guangdong and Guangxi, many closely related varieties exist, and linguists collectively refer to these as the Cantonese (or Yue) group. More specifically, the Cantonese language can also refer a specific and standarized variety of the language, standard Cantonese. This is the language used as a lingua franca, education, media, and by Cantonese people in Hong Kong, Macao, and overseas. Unlike most other varieties of Chinese, Cantonese enjoys a de facto official status (in Hong Kong and Macau), and has an ...

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