Hong Kong Cantonese

Hong Kong Cantonese is a dialect of the Cantonese language of the Sino-Tibetan family.

Hong Kong Cantonese
香港粵語; 港式廣東話
Native toHong Kong and some Overseas Communities
RegionPearl River Delta
EthnicityHongkongers
Sino-Tibetan
Writing system
Traditional Chinese
Language codes
ISO 639-3–
ISO 639-6xgng
Linguist List
yue-yue
 yue-can
Glottologxian1255
Linguasphere79-AAA-mac
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese香港粵語
Simplified Chinese香港粤语
Hong Kong-style Cantonese
Traditional Chinese港式粵語
Hong Kong-Guangdong dialect
Traditional Chinese香港廣東話
Hong Kong-Guangzhou dialect
Traditional Chinese香港廣州話
Demographics and culture of Hong Kong
Demographics
Culture
Other Hong Kong topics

Although Hongkongers refer to the language as "Cantonese" (廣東話), publications in mainland China describe the variant as Hong Kong dialect (香港廣東話), due to the differences between the pronunciation used in Hong Kong Cantonese and that of the Cantonese spoken in neighbouring Guangdong Province where Cantonese (based on the Guangzhou dialect) is a lingua franca.

Over the years, Hong Kong Cantonese has also absorbed foreign terminology and developed a large set of Hong Kong-specific terms. Code-switching with English is also common. These are the result of British rule between 1841 and 1997, as well as the closure of the Hong Kong–mainland China border immediately after the establishment of the People's Republic of China in 1949.

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