10 Interesting Facts about Cantonese

As is the case with most languages spoken natively in the region today called “China”, Cantonese is among the Sino-Tibetan languages. It is a major language spoken in southeastern China. Actually, calling the collection of languages spoken in China “Chinese” is almost like saying French, Italian, and Romanian are actually Latin since the differences in dialects (which should actually be called separate languages) are so vast. Indeed, “Chinese” should actually be considered a range of language varieties, not a single language. Next to Mandarin, Cantonese is one of the biggest languages in the country, although even “Cantonese” is actually made up of a collection of dialects, some of which vary greatly from one another.