44 ASIAN LANGUAGES

[rott]

Canton is a dialect not a language``````its general gramma still goes with Mandarin, but it varies a little bit when constructing few local expressions, same as hundreds of other dialects that Zhejiang has as compared to Mandarin

I know that bro, I did say it's not a language. Just that I didn't mention it as "dialect". Yes, Cantonese is just another Chinese dialect like Hakka, Hokkein, etc.

 

[nature is]

Very good dig, bro. But Cantonese is not a language. Just saying.
Also, if one can understand Mandarin, you can understand all the Mandarin spoken in China, Singapore, Malaysia and anywhere where Mandarin is spoken.
Let me invite others for their inputs
@TaiShang @Han Patriot @Beast @Dungeness @ZeEa5KPul @faithfulguy
@sinait @Jlaw @beijingwalker @AndrewJin @Chinese-Dragon @eldarlmari @Two @lonelyman @Pyr0test @nature is @rcrmj

Anyone from China would know Cantonese is a dialect. Not just because of the written script, the grammar and syntax is largely the same. Chinese isn't a phonetic language, spoken form will vary even though it is written the same way.

Westerner and British Hong Kong consider it as language. Well, a language is just a dialect with an army. Danish, Swedish and Norwegian are easily understood to all, yet they are deemed as different languages.

 

[rcrmj]

Anybody have a guess at which Chinese dialects are the most difficult to understand.
Cantonese is widely spoken, so should be considered not difficult, especially the older generation.
Minnan or Hokkien is easy for us Singaporeans but may not be so for Northern Chinese.
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wenzhou dialect`````i guess