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Q: What is the difference between the cantonese spoken by HK and Guangdong people?

Is there any difference?........pronunciation or vocabs or anything?

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for a complete reply, please visit :

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong_Cantonese

 

there you will see all differences and a bit of history.

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http://www.echinacities.com/expat-corner/a-quick-guide-to-china-s-main-d...

 

 

take a look at this

 

the actual dialect is called yue yu

 

 my friends here told me its not that different, but the accent isnt the same

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Yeah, the accent is a bit different. And even in Guangdong, difference places get subtle difference, well, some are not subtle.

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I'm a CBC that speaks Cantonese.  There's not that much difference between HK and GZ Cantonese unless they are from another city'/village in Guangdong.  Depending on where they're from, their dialect does inject some differences in tone.  However, I would say that the biggest difference between HK and GZ Cantonese is that HK people use a lot more English terms/expressions in their daily speech, whereas GZ Cantonese use a more 'pure' form of Cantonese, ie, Chinese expressions only.

 

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