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Originally Posted by jbradfor
You will piss off a lot of people if you insist that "Cantonese is not Chinese". It is not Mandarin phrasing, but "Chinese" incorporates languages/dialects beyond Standard Mandarin.
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If someone feel pissed about my word, I apologize. May be I should rephrase it to "it is Cantonese but not formal Chinese". Sorry for the thoughtlessness.
Additional information about Cantonese: it is more like a dialect (as there are kansai and kantou dialect in Japanese) than a language. We speak in Cantonese but write in Chinese. However, it is still possible to express Cantonese in words (informally).