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I always thought that most books written with traditional script in Hong Kong would be written in Cantonese, while the simplified would be in mandarin. These ar
by wodenokoto 6y ago
I always thought that most books written with traditional script in Hong Kong would be written in Cantonese, while the simplified would be in mandarin. These are quite different languages.
- moonchild 6y agoCantonese and mandarin share a script.
- eloisius 6y agoNot only a script but also the same written language - Standard Chinese, unless it was very colloquially written Cantonese. That's part of what's so fascinating about Chinese. There are so many dialects that are quite different when spoken, but share the same written language.
- tanilama 6y agoThere is no Cantonese script. It is traditional Chinese characters + low few hundreds (200-300) phonemes that are unique to Cantonese, which is mainly used for informal conversation. If you publish a book, most likely it will be in the formal Chinese.