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Pardon my chauvinism towards my mother tongue. Here are more details of the chinese language classification. Usage of the Chinese Languages Mandarin - 836 million Wu - 77 million Cantonese - 73 million Min (Hokkien, Teochew & Taiwanese) - 60 million Hakka- 34 million Gan - 31...

Absolutely. Although Mandarin (or putonghua) is the standard and official language in mainland China, it has only been around for about 700 or 800 years, compared to the 2000-year history of Cantonese. Cantonese, not Mandarin, is the dominant language in overseas Chinese communities. This...

You are right I exaggerated. Buts here is the stuff i got from internet. But my point is Cantonese has a much older history than Mandarin and the richness of its words, phrases and idioms far far more advanced that Mandarin. In my opionion Cantonese is far superior in that aspect. Although...

Yup. Nazi fascist scums they are with IQs too low to handle more than two languages. UNICEF is promoting the preservation of native tongues around the world and here in Singapore, the gov is trying exterminate dialects. Absolute disgrace!!

Absolutely, we grew up speaking dialects with our grandparents, parents. uncles, aunties and cousin. Cantonese is and important element of my identiy. People whose IQ are too stupid to learn more than one or two langugaes should not interefere with the dialects speaking community...

Absolutely. Cantonese on the other hand has a 3000 years history.