[LupCheong]

How come majority China people are speaking Cantonese after mandarin Chinese. I thought most China people is speak Hakka after mandarin Chinese.

[Notdumb]

U been to China ah?

[LupCheong]

U been to China ah?

Yup have been to China quite a number of times

[Levin]

How come majority China people are speaking Cantonese after mandarin Chinese. I thought most China people is speak Hakka after mandarin Chinese.

?? Expected as Guangdong's and Guangxi's total population is huge (mainly Guangdong). And HK too. That's why Bai Hua is very popular. Should be more popular than Hakka.

[Notdumb]

Yup have been to China quite a number of times

U only go Guangzhou lah. Try going north...Sichuan u will catch no balls.

[LupCheong]

?? Expected as Guangdong's and Guangxi's total population is huge (mainly Guangdong). And HK too. That's why Bai Hua is very popular. Should be more popular than Hakka.

Yup even in non-cantonese city like Shanghai or Beijing those variety show they will sometimes sing Cantonese song or speak in Cantonese but never heard them sing Hakka or teochew song.

[debono]

Yup even in non-cantonese city like Shanghai or Beijing those variety show they will sometimes sing Cantonese song or speak in Cantonese but never heard them sing Hakka or teochew song.

In China the majority of the population speaking Hakka is small, whereas Cantonese have a bigger population in China.  The emperor of China had stated that all dialects speak Mandarin so as to unite China....and the Chinese characters are universal to all Chinese people.........

[Sentinel]

Cantonese is nice sounding

Hakka sounds like farking kuniang speaking

[Odessy]

Because of the gathering of peoples and the main distribution and consumption centre of opium in Canton back then

[Sticw]

Because Hong Kong movies bah... At least that's how it goes for the last 5 decades... Lol

[Soulhacker]

Depend which area you are mah.

But since most of the earlier economy zone are established along the south east coastal area of AT land, so naturally these area are got more sexposure to foreigners and give the impression that most AT speak the local dialect of these areas mah.

Like moi the oversea assignment to AT land in the 2000s and early 2010s are mostly around the Guangdong provinces area one (including the shengzheng city too) ish got dip cantonese accent. Later ish visiting xia men more and many ish similar to our hokkien accent liao, then before the covid ish frequent shanghai and qingdao area more, the accent different again though the accent ish no longer familiar to moi since in red dot mostly ish got sexperience with hokkien, cantonese and teochew nia.

[cityhantam]

?? Expected as Guangdong's and Guangxi's total population is huge (mainly Guangdong). And HK too. That's why Bai Hua is very popular. Should be more popular than Hakka.

Cantonese is only spoken by people of Guangzhou area.

[Levin]

Cantonese is only spoken by people of Guangzhou area.

No lah. Lots of places in the whole Guangdong speak Bai Hua such as Shunde, Foshan, Jiangmen etc. There are places in Guangdong that speak Teochew or Hakka instead (Meizhou, Shantou, Shanwei etc) but they are in the minority. Same in Guangxi as I know quite a few people from Guangxi. All speak Bai Hua. Then you add in that 10 million from HK where even Angmos, Africans and Indians speak Cantonese.

[debono]

No lah. Lots of places in the whole Guangdong speak Bai Hua such as Shunde, Foshan, Jiangmen etc. There are places in Guangdong that speak Teochew or Hakka instead (Meizhou, Shantou, Shanwei etc) but they are in the minority. Same in Guangxi as I know quite a few people from Guangxi. All speak Bai Hua. Then you add in that 10 million from HK where even Angmos, Africans and Indians speak Cantonese.

I am yet to see Africans and Indians speak Cantonese............

[watchfirst9]

Yup even in non-cantonese city like Shanghai or Beijing those variety show they will sometimes sing Cantonese song or speak in Cantonese but never heard them sing Hakka or teochew song.

mC while promoting Mandarin use but did not limit dialect use especially in music
Many workers from other provinces working in GuangDong. 
HK singers of older generation able to sign Cantonese and Mandarin along with  
its TV dramas from 70s 80s 90s were board cast in mC are leaving lasting impact in entrainment sphere. 
 
New trend is songs contains Mandarin mix with other dialects. 
Cantonese is most common, there are still few others as well but rare
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-LgHh7x27I

[SotongOngTee]

I am yet to see Africans and Indians speak Cantonese............

If you are in Guangzhou.

[grotesqueness]

Yup even in non-cantonese city like Shanghai or Beijing those variety show they will sometimes sing Cantonese song or speak in Cantonese but never heard them sing Hakka or teochew song.

yeah loh

work in beijing for 3 months

mostly speak putong haw
learn that they all can speak fluent cantonese also
some are from the south cause it was dec close to chinese new year
they say they got to return back to the south for CNY

[debono]

yeah loh

work in beijing for 3 months

mostly speak putong haw
learn that they all can speak fluent cantonese also
some are from the south cause it was dec close to chinese new year
they say they got to return back to the south for CNY

I think you are right they mostly speak putong haw......

[grotesqueness]

I think you are right they mostly speak putong haw......

they told me in beijing you better speak putong haw and the chinese is putong haw not haw yu

not able to do so will land you in detention camp

they told me a lot of secret police in beijing

white or black foreigner is ok
chinese foreigner must show passport

taiwan passport got to watch out for yourself

[debono]

If you are in Guangzhou.

Been to HK but did not see any African or Indian speaking Cantonese........

[SotongOngTee]

Hong Kong is likely in Guangdong.

[Blasterlord2]

Been to HK but did not see any African or Indian speaking Cantonese........

Got lah, many.

[grotesqueness]

Got lah, many.

yeah loh


even pinoy maid also speak HK cantonese

[Levin]

I am yet to see Africans and Indians speak Cantonese............

You should go HK. I was at the airport check-in and spoke English to an Indian lady back in the 1990s in my first project there. She was really irritated and spoke to me in Cantonese. Then I remembered that second or more generations of Indians, angmos, africans in HK do not speak much else besides Cantonese. Nowadays I think they won't get irritated so easily as I believed the service is much better.

That incident reminded me that back in my secondary school when some students from HK came to visit my school for some ECA. I kept speaking to a Caucasian in English. Finally one of my schoolmate pulled me aside and told me that the Caucasian is irritated as he cannot speak much English. Not that he spoke some other Western language like German or French etc. He just speaks mainly Cantonese and a bit of Mandarin.

[p1acebo]

Most folks in KL also speak Cantonese.

[drgn]

How come majority China people are speaking Cantonese after mandarin Chinese. I thought most China people is speak Hakka after mandarin Chinese.

in china, not many people speak hakka.

hakka is a minority.  so few can speak hakka, in singapore, most hakka have to learn to speak other language like cantonese in order to survive.

[cityhantam]

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/4Kz8FqtPD1w
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