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Don't think that's true. I'm in southeast asia and the largest chinese language groups in the following countries are: Singapore: Hokkien Indonesia: Teochew
by abjwam 10y ago
Don't think that's true. I'm in southeast asia and the largest chinese language groups in the following countries are:
Singapore: Hokkien
Indonesia: Teochew
Philippines: Hokkien
Malaysia: Hokkien (although cantonese popular there)
Thailand: Teochew
Teochew and Hokkien are actually part of the min-nan dialect group which also includes Taiwanese.
- smallnamespace 10y agoThat's fair, but anything outside of SE Asia is predominantly Cantonese, hence why Westerners are familiar with it. There's also the fact that the HK film industry was fairly dominant for a couple of decades--if a Westerner saw a Chinese-language film before the 90s, it almost certainly had Cantonese in it.