Cantonese as Spoken in Hong Kong

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/Cantonese_as_Spoken_in_Hong_Kong

GPTKB entity

Statements (50)

Predicate	Object
gptkbp:instanceOf	variety of Cantonese
gptkbp:branch	gptkb:Chinese_characters
gptkbp:colloquialWriting	Cantonese characters
gptkbp:containsCommunity	gptkb:Golden_Forum gptkb:LIHKG
gptkbp:coOfficialWith	English
gptkbp:distinctiveFeature	unique slang nine tones use of colloquial vocabulary
gptkbp:education	medium of instruction in many schools
gptkbp:hasFeature	gptkb:Hong_Kong_Cantonese
gptkbp:hasLoanwordsFrom	English Japanese
gptkbp:hasPhonology	nine-tone system
gptkbp:hasSlang	Hong Kong Cantonese slang
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label	Cantonese as Spoken in Hong Kong
gptkbp:influencedBy	gptkb:Mandarin English
gptkbp:ISO639-3	yue
gptkbp:languageFamily	gptkb:Sino-Tibetan
gptkbp:mediaType	gptkb:RTHK gptkb:Hong_Kong_cinema gptkb:TVB
gptkbp:notableDifferencesFrom	gptkb:Mandarin_Chinese gptkb:Standard_Written_Chinese
gptkbp:numberOfSpeakers	over 6 million
gptkbp:policy	biliterate and trilingual policy
gptkbp:preservedIn	literary readings classical Chinese vocabulary
gptkbp:relatedTo	gptkb:Guangzhou_Cantonese
gptkbp:romanizationSystems	gptkb:Sidney_Lau gptkb:Jyutping gptkb:Yale
gptkbp:script	gptkb:Traditional_Chinese
gptkbp:spokenIn	gptkb:Hong_Kong
gptkbp:status	official language of Hong Kong
gptkbp:supportsLanguage	zh-yue
gptkbp:teaches	Hong Kong Education Bureau textbooks
gptkbp:usedBy	Hong Kong residents Hong Kong diaspora
gptkbp:usedIn	gptkb:media gptkb:Hong_Kong_films gptkb:Hong_Kong_television gptkb:Hong_Kong_pop_music advertising government communication daily conversation
gptkbp:writingSystem	gptkb:Traditional_Chinese_characters
gptkbp:bfsParent	gptkb:Sidney_Lau
gptkbp:bfsLayer	6