cantonese

www.reuters.com — Hundreds in China's southern export hub of Guangdong scuffled with police at a weekend protest to support the local Cantonese dialect, a witness said, with a small group of reporters and protesters briefly detained by police.

www.theglobeandmail.com — Though it is spoken by more than 70 million people worldwide, and is the third most-used language in Canada after English and French, Cantonese is in trouble here in not only Western Chinatowns but even in the city formerly known as Canton. In Guangzhou, however, Cantonese speakers are beginning to gently push back, hoping to preserve their mother tongue.

www.nytimes.com — An NY Times article looking at the effect of Fujianese migrants on the linguistic makeup of America's Chinatowns, where Cantonese is rapidly being eclipsed by Mandarin.