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The Expansion of Cantonese Over the Last Two Centuries

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Cantonese is the representative variety of Yue Chinese. Since the end of the First Opium War (1839–1842), a large number of Cantonese people have emigrated from the heart of the Pearl River Delta, thereby creating many “enclave” varieties of Cantonese elsewhere in far southern China and overseas. This chapter, descriptive in nature, looks into the formation of these enclave Cantonese varieties, concentrating on Nanning Cantonese and Hong Kong Cantonese. The primary factor that caused the variation among the Cantonese varieties is the difference in their language contact environments. Being spoken in so many different countries and territories has also increased the variation among the Cantonese varieties, with the difference in language policy being one of the factors. Also discussed in this chapter is Written Cantonese; in the Cantonese world, one finds a continuum of written registers from Standard Written Chinese to Written Cantonese. Being used in different jurisdictions also means that Written Cantonese has evolved slightly differently in the different jurisdictions.

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