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Cantonese in China is not dying...it is being murdered. That is the difference in meaning, perception, and Public policy.

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I am a native Cantonese who was born and raised in Guangzhou for 23 years. I still remembered it well that I was punished by my teacher for speaking Cantonese by writing an article with no less than 400 words to self-criticize how wrong I had been and promise I would never speak Cantonese at school anymore when I was in primary school, which deeply provoked and confused me why, as a Cantonese, I should be deprived the right of speaking my mother language in the place where I was born.

RIDICULOUS huh? But that was really what I had been though.

I think Cantonese language is something that Cantonese hold dear as an inalienable part of the local culture, otherwise you wouldn’t have seen thousands of local people of Guangzhou gather outside the metro station to protest the “crackdown” of using Cantonese as an official language of broadcast on native TV and radio by the government.

To some extent, Guangzhou is the most similar city to Hong Kong in mainland China.

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does anyone agree that minority dialects like cantonese and hakka will slowly diminish and become almost like latin in which only learn from books?

There are more people in china that speak mandarin and people who speak a chinese dialect is leaving and having families outside china, which I know; thier children will lose their cultural roots and speak another language as their first instead of chinese and the cycle continues

or will these dialects stay around for much longer?