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  2. Hoa people - Wikipedia

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    The Hoa people, also known as Vietnamese Chinese (Vietnamese: Người Hoa, Chinese: 華人; pinyin: Huárén; Cantonese Yale: Wàhyàhn or Chinese: 唐人; Jyutping: tong4 jan4; Cantonese Yale: Tòhngyàhn) are the citizens and nationals of Vietnam of full or partial Han Chinese ancestry.

  3. Sino-Vietnamese vocabulary - Wikipedia

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    Sino-Vietnamese vocabulary (Vietnamese: từ Hán Việt, Chữ Hán: 詞漢越, literally 'Chinese-Vietnamese words') is a layer of about 3,000 monosyllabic morphemes of the Vietnamese language borrowed from Literary Chinese with consistent pronunciations based on Middle Chinese. Compounds using these morphemes are used extensively in cultural ...

  4. Cantonese people - Wikipedia

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    Cantonese, Taishanese and other Yue languages (native languages), Standard Chinese, Vietnamese, Malaysian, Filipino and Indonesian, Hong Kong English, Macau Portuguese Religion Predominantly Chinese folk religions (which include Confucianism , Taoism , ancestral worship ) and Mahayana Buddhism

  5. Cantonese - Wikipedia

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    Cantonese (traditional Chinese: 廣東話; simplified Chinese: 广东话; Jyutping: Gwong2 dung1 waa2; Cantonese Yale: Gwóngdūng wá) is the traditional prestige variety of Yue Chinese, a Sinitic language belonging to the Sino-Tibetan language family, which has over 85 million native speakers. [1]

  6. Languages of Taiwan - Wikipedia

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    Cantonese is the biggest Sinitic language which Taiwan does not recognize as a national language. There are a reported 87,719 Hongkongers residing in Taiwan as of the early 2010s; [ 26 ] however, it is likely that this number has increased following emigration following political tension from the Anti-Extradition Ordinance Amendment Bill ...

  7. The quest to save Cantonese in a world dominated by Mandarin

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    Stanford still offers more than 40 languages, from Afrikaans to Vietnamese. “The Cantonese-language program was never eliminated,” Leighton said. “This decision to reduce courses, for ...

  8. Old Yue language - Wikipedia

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    Map of the Warring States Period, after Yue conquered Wu. Other Baiyue peoples are shown in the south.. The Old Yue language (Chinese: 古越語; pinyin: Gǔyuè yǔ; Jyutping: Gu2 Jyut6 Jyu5; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Kó͘-oa̍t-gí / Kó͘-oa̍t-gír / Kó͘-oa̍t-gú, Vietnamese: Tiếng Việt cổ) is an unclassified language, or group(s) of various languages, spoken in ancient southern China, and ...

  9. Chữ Hán - Wikipedia

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    A comparison between Sino-Vietnamese (left) vocabulary with Mandarin and Cantonese pronunciations below and native Vietnamese vocabulary (right). Owing to historical contact with Chinese characters before the adoption of Chinese characters and how they were adapted into Vietnamese, multiple readings can exist for a single character.