A Hong Kong Cantonese opera group features scenes of US President Donald Trump and Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky ...

Cantonese opera is experiencing a revival in Hong Kong through a quirky tale about Donald Trump’s political career. CNN’s ...

Today’s AI models struggle to operate in smaller languages like Cantonese and Vietnamese, which are still spoken by tens of ...

As efforts began to save Cantonese at Stanford, the language remained under threat worldwide. It is being swamped by Mandarin, the official language of more than 1 billion people in China and ...

Cantonese is said to be closer than Mandarin to ancient Chinese. It is also more complicated. Mandarin has four tones, so a character can be intonated four ways with four meanings.

Cantonese has nine, which can be difficult to differentiate. Meanwhile, independent Chinese schools are helping fill the void as Cantonese-speaking communities grow — and not just in Chinatowns.

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That Cantonese could follow suit can seem alarmist, bordering on ridiculous. About 90% of Hong Kongers – some 6.8 million people – speak it as their first language, ...

The number of Cantonese speakers is actually around 80 million worldwide, including people from China's Southeastern province of Guangdong where it originated (both the province and its capital ...

When her Cantonese-speaking patients at San Francisco General Hospital see her walk in, Quon said, they breathe a “huge sigh of relief.” Cantonese, a regional Chinese language spoken by over 80 ...

Cantonese restaurants, in contrast, are on the decline. The diversification of Chinese restaurants could be the result of increased demand for other styles of cuisine, thanks to a growing northern ...