Cantonese
Cantonese is one of the world's most
widely spoken languages. There are nearly 50,000,000 mother tongue speakers on
mainland China. Along with English, this is the official language of Hong Kong
and is spoken in; Singapore, Macau, Viet Nam, Panama, United Kingdom, Mauritius,
United States, Macau, Indonesia, New Zealand, Thialand, Philippines, Costa Rica,
Brunei, Malaysia, Canada, Nauru and The Netherlands.
Total number of
speakers is over 65,000,000.
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